DOS ain't dead

(New compilations, not new versions)

2008-06-21:
p7zip (7-Zip) v4.58

2008-06-22:
Elinks browser v0.13-20080425
Links browser v2.1pre236

Download from:
http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/
or
http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/bin/

Yay, I wonder what's changed :D

> Yay, I wonder what's changed :D

p7zip is 7k bigger, hopefully faster (untested by me so far), but it still uses PMODSTUB.

> > Yay, I wonder what's changed :D
>
> p7zip is 7k bigger, hopefully faster (untested by me so far), but it still
> uses PMODSTUB.

Links got bigger too. I wouldn't expect p7zip to get any faster...it's probably the slowest of all the archivers, on any OS :)

> I wouldn't expect p7zip to get any faster...it's probably the slowest
> of all the archivers, on any OS :)

It's still much faster than UHARC -mx or any variant of PAQ8. I think the ultimate speed options for 7-Zip are "-mx1 -m0=bzip2". (It's Deflate is more optimal than others, i.e. creates smaller files, but it's a little slower due to that.)

(New compilation, not new version)

2008-06-25:
Elinks browser v0.13-20080425

Change? This part of the 22 June README.DOS file is not in the 25 Jun file:

* A packet driver is necessary for offline browsing. This requirement may be removed in the future but currently, due to lack of working pipe(2), which is required for interprocess communication, a stripped down socketpair(2) implementation is used as a simple workaround.

Download from:
http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/
or
http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/bin/

> * A packet driver is necessary for offline browsing.

Is he aware of NULLPKT?

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> > * A packet driver is necessary for offline browsing.
>
> Is he aware of NULLPKT?

I would guess not. Else why bother writing code and inflating the EXE?

> > Is he aware of
> NULLPKT?
>
> I would guess not. Else why bother writing code and inflating the EXE?

So please tell him about NULLPKT, because I linked to your site here.

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> > I would guess not. Else why bother writing code and inflating the EXE?
>
> So please tell him about NULLPKT,

OK.

> because I linked to your site here.

I noticed.