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posted by Steve Homepage E-mail, US, 14.04.2008, 20:44

> 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).
7-Zip handles all those formats, packing and unpacking. So does bsdtar, which is available for Windows. Just today, GNU tar 1.20 was released, with support for 7-Zip's LZMA compression/decompression added to gzip and bzip2. With those options, and still others, there must be at least one that the Pascal gang can be happy with for archiving/compressing on any convenient OS.

> > > 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
Something like that would, I am sure, please a lot of users.

> 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.
Arkady is still making his nice DOS packages for OW - a bit slow, but he's doing it. If he, or somebody, could get around to automating updates...

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