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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 14.04.2008, 19:55

> > > I'm one of those who thinks that compression is critical
> > > for download packages,
> >
> > Sure. But everything is already ZIPed. Better donate a Pascal bzip2
> > decompressor, and the dl sizes will decrease more, and it can be
> included
> > with FPC, so other FPC programmers also benefit from it.
>
> bzip2 is available for DOS & Windows. 7-Zip can do bzip2 compression.
> Info-ZIP 3 will have bzip2 compression (could have it now if somebody
> wants to compile the beta code). And so on.
Actually, you can use DJTAR from DJDEV204.ZIP (C src: DJLSR204.ZIP) to unpack .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.Z, or .zip (Deflate only). Of course, I guess that's out because it's not Pascal code, but it does work (and is pretty small).

> > Another thing that is coming is net installers (is that useful at all
> for
> > Dos?)
>
> Useless for me, irrespective of OS. I like to have the whole archive, for
> inspection before unpacking, and as a backup for offline use.
You mean like this?

http://www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/lsm.cgi?mode=lsm&lsm=util/fdupdate.lsm

> > > They don't need to do much more than get the current UPX. Seriously -
> > > don't they know that other progs get updated too?
> >
> > Who? Read the thread, there is no dos maintainer that does such things.
> > The upx decision is actually from win32 related discussions.
Yes, obviously we all know there is no DOS maintainer anymore. (Even OpenWatcom has none, last I heard.) For FPC, the OS/2 dude (thanks!) does the DOS releases.

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