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OpenWatcom version 1.7 available | anyone tested it ? (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 25.08.2007, 03:07

> > Download: http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Download
>
> See also:
>
> http://openwatcom.org/index.php/Alternative_Open_Watcom_distribution
>
> DOS related info added by rr :lol3:
I know, I've seen that, but that .ZIP collection hasn't been updated for 1.7 (yet?? Arkady??)

> > P.S. I can't understand why put sources in both .ZIP and .BZ2
>
> Many projects even triple-secure their packages by offering ZIP, TAR-GZIP
> and TAR-BZIP2 files ... you know, you can't expect any acceptance of TAR
> from "Windows" users ... and GZIP is for low-memory (2 MiB or less)
> machines running Loonix ... but don't ask me how they get it working
> :lol3:
Well, .ZIP is flexible archiving, allowing partial recovery if the file is somewhat corrupted (same with Bzip2, but this is usually less available b/c of the default 900kb blocksize). The only real reason to use .TGZ is that it's slightly better compression than .ZIP (due to solid, all-in-one compression instead of compressing files individually). But like I said, LPAQ1 compresses even better than Bzip2, even when only using 6 MB of RAM. :-D

> Did anyone test the WATCOM 1.7 ? Better than 1.6 ? Linker fully working ?
I haven't really tested it yet, but where are we expected to report bugs to? (Their newsgroups??)

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