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p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | Ibiblio has 4.61 only (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 23.05.2009, 02:40

> There aren't a lot of FreeDOS admins anymore, so while I did e-mail them

Among others SF still says "Kernel - 2036test Last Update: May 21 2006"

> guess none of them uses it very much (or at least not enough
> to need 4.65 instead of 4.61).

4.65 is a stable version and the last one of the 4.xx line, 4.61 is just one of millions of irrelevant historical beta's ...

> I can only guess because of WATT-32 + GNU pth slowing it down (although
> admittedly MSVC might be better than GCC these days, too).

And DGJPP C file I/O library costs 10% ...

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Complete thread:

• p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS - Rugxulo, 16.04.2009, 17:48 (Announce)
  • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS - rr, 16.04.2009, 21:54
    • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS - Rugxulo, 16.04.2009, 22:10
  • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | Ibiblio has 4.61 only - DOS386, 22.05.2009, 08:12
    • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | Ibiblio has 4.61 only - Rugxulo, 23.05.2009, 02:26
      • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | Ibiblio has 4.61 only - DOS386, 23.05.2009, 02:40
        • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | Ibiblio has 4.61 only - Rugxulo, 23.05.2009, 02:42
          • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS (performance) - Rugxulo, 26.05.2009, 21:46
        • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | GCC 4.4.0 -O2 -mtune=i686 - Rugxulo, 29.05.2009, 02:41
          • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | GCC 4.4.0 -O2 -mtune=i686 - DOS386, 05.06.2009, 07:20
            • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | GCC 4.4.0 -O2 -mtune=i686 - Rugxulo, 05.06.2009, 07:47
              • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | GCC 4.4.0 -O2 -mtune=i686 - DOS386, 05.06.2009, 08:35
                • p7zip 4.65 for FreeDOS | GCC 4.4.0 -O2 -mtune=i686 - Rugxulo, 11.06.2009, 04:13