DOS ain't dead

p7zip 9.20.1 (Users)

posted by mvojvodic, 21.08.2012, 22:43
(edited by mvojvodic on 21.08.2012, 23:44)

>
> Bug? It still relies on *nix-style forward slashes '/' in dir paths, which
> is bad, but I couldn't find a solution that actually fixed it (tried and
> failed, sadly). So that's still annoying. But it's a small price to pay for
> a working util.
>
> Feel free to kick the tires and test it. I didn't test too too much, but
> benchmarking doesn't crash, and it compresses its own .ZIP, so I guess
> that's good.
>

Tested it under DataLight ROM-DOS 7.10 R4.20.1594SU (last freeware version),
Wengier DOS 7.10, FreeDOS 1.1 (installed from Base CD), and in real DOS mode
of Windows 98 SE (used BootGUI=0 in MSDOS.SYS, so Windows does not start
automatically after DOS and I start Windows by running WIN.COM).

It works perfectly. I did not find any bug testing it for more than four
hours under various conditions.
Forward slashes are no problem (only in DOS Navigator 6.4.0).

Some antivirus packages report many UPX packed exe files as suspicious. This
false alarm is very common, because they wish to act as some sort of police
to protect everything from the pirates. So when they see something packed,
that is malware. The leader in such foolish behaviour is famous Sophos
Antivirus. They flagged the whole SysInternals Suite by Russinovich as
malware. After I packed Sophos using UPX, it moved itself to quarantine!
Sophos flagged your P7ZIP as malware. I do not have Sophos (I never will)
but my friend has it, so I tested P7ZIP using his machine.

Now I can use 7-zip 9.20.1 in DOS without any emulator.

Complete thread:

• p7zip 9.20.1 - Rugxulo, 20.08.2012, 22:46 (Users)
  • p7zip 9.20.1 - mvojvodic, 21.08.2012, 22:43
    • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Rugxulo, 23.08.2012, 00:16
      • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Zyzzle, 24.08.2012, 22:02
        • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Rugxulo, 25.08.2012, 00:04
          • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Zyzzle, 25.08.2012, 00:59
            • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Rugxulo, 25.08.2012, 01:58
              • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Zyzzle, 26.08.2012, 04:09
                • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Rugxulo, 26.08.2012, 04:59
                • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Rugxulo, 31.08.2012, 23:05
                  • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Rugxulo, 02.09.2012, 22:27
                    • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Zyzzle, 04.09.2012, 23:59
                      • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Rugxulo, 05.09.2012, 02:12
                        • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Khusraw, 05.09.2012, 10:30
                    • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Rugxulo, 06.09.2012, 23:21
                      • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - favero, 21.09.2012, 20:04
                        • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Rugxulo, 22.09.2012, 06:16
                          • p7zip 9.20.1b "testing" - Khusraw, 23.09.2012, 19:44
                            • 7ZA 9.20 rebuilt by Khusraw - Rugxulo, 11.10.2012, 21:56
                              • 7ZA 9.20 rebuilt by Khusraw - Khusraw, 12.10.2012, 16:30
                                • 7ZA 9.20 rebuilt by Khusraw - Rugxulo, 13.10.2012, 05:35
                                  • 7ZA 9.20 rebuilt by Khusraw - Khusraw, 13.10.2012, 09:06
            • AdvanceComp 1.15 -- rebuilt with newer compiler - Rugxulo, 25.08.2012, 02:33
              • AdvanceComp 1.15 -- rebuilt with newer compiler - roytam, 20.03.2013, 07:58
                • AdvanceComp 1.15 -- rebuilt with newer compiler - Rugxulo, 21.03.2013, 18:03
                  • AdvanceComp 1.15 -- rebuilt with newer compiler - roytam, 22.03.2013, 01:03
                    • GCC 4.8.0 (DJGPP 2.04 only) - Rugxulo, 28.03.2013, 00:24