DOS ain't dead

The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 28.07.2012, 20:02

> > I'm not sure we've talked about the same unrar.exe, so here is what I've
> > found in web:
> >
> > v3.3.6(year 2004) for 32-bit DOS, with detailed syntax
> > http://freesoft.cyberside.net.ee/FreeSoft/arc1.htm#archivers
> >
> > some newer version at: http://www.sac.sk/files.php?d=7&l=U
> > 76. unrar38b.zip UnRAR for DOS 253056 2009-08-21 09:05:00
> > 142. urar376d.zip UnRAR v3.70 for DOS32 130481 2007-07-02 08:05:39
> > 143. urar378d.zip UnRAR v3.71 Beta for DOS32 130214 2007-09-10 18:31:27
>
> I created 'urar385b.zip' in late 2008. It can be found at
> http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/.

I know RAR dropped DOS support in v4, presumably for Unicode reasons. Does this mean even Unrar 4.x doesn't compile for non-Unicode targets? (Guess I should try one of these days.) Anyways, 3.x is plenty good enough, it seems.

Not sure why the license was relevant to mention here, but yeah, due to the "no RAR competitors" clause, it's not GPL friendly, which irks some people. I know Virtual Pascal had an older RAR-compatible library and utils, but I don't know if that would help here very much as it lacks support for newer (v2? v3?) codecs.

Complete thread:

• The Doszip Commander version 2.24 available - nidud, 17.02.2012, 13:25
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.24 available - Rugxulo, 17.02.2012, 17:08
    • The Doszip Commander version 2.24 available - nidud, 17.02.2012, 17:54
      • The Doszip Commander version 2.24 available - Rugxulo, 17.02.2012, 20:30
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.28 available - nidud, 01.04.2012, 15:59
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.29 available - nidud, 07.04.2012, 12:55
    • The Doszip Commander version 2.29 available - Rugxulo, 08.04.2012, 02:13
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.30 available - nidud, 14.04.2012, 14:51
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.31 available - nidud, 20.05.2012, 23:57
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.32 available - nidud, 23.05.2012, 00:03
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available - nidud, 29.05.2012, 14:45
    • The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available - HTC, 13.07.2012, 08:23
      • The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available - nidud, 23.07.2012, 22:59
        • The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available - HTC, 27.07.2012, 14:50
          • The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available - rr, 27.07.2012, 21:48
            • The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available - Rugxulo, 28.07.2012, 20:02
          • The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available - nidud, 28.07.2012, 13:57
            • The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available - Rugxulo, 28.07.2012, 20:07
              • The Doszip Commander version 2.33 available - nidud, 28.07.2012, 23:51
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.35 available - nidud, 27.07.2012, 14:54