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The Doszip Commander version 2.37 available (Announce)

posted by nidud , Norway, 24.10.2012, 23:43

> I've mirrored this to iBiblio and announced as News.
>
> BTW, I don't see any plugins nor 186 version for this release, but I guess
> it's not a deal breaker.

The plugins should still work (I hope), no need to update.
I could compile a 186 version thought.

> As for WinXP and NTVDM bugs ... that will probably never change. Windows 8
> comes out in two days, and while I haven't tried its 32-bit version, I'm
> very skeptical that NTVDM will barely work at all. IIRC, DJGPP had to work
> around a lot of bugs, and sometimes they resorted to doing LFN2SFN and then
> whatever to avoid some issues. I don't know if that helps you, but you
> could check their libc sources for some rare hints if you're curious.

Not shore what to make of this, but by testing the read functions it appear a second call (if it fails) seems to work. It may also been a local problem here during the test, seems to work fine now (NC included).

Complete thread:

• The Doszip Commander version 2.37 available - nidud, 23.10.2012, 13:46 (Announce)
  • The Doszip Commander version 2.37 available - Rugxulo, 24.10.2012, 21:57
    • The Doszip Commander version 2.37 available - nidud, 24.10.2012, 23:43