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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 22.07.2010, 01:04

> > Better compression, what else? :lol:
> :lol: I asked for that! Ok, I suggest we don't go over this one again ;)
Seriously, that's the only real reason to use it, for LZMA or PPMD (instead of Deflate or Bzip2, which are supported in latest Info-Zip).

> 7zdec912.zip
> Thanks, forgot about your good work there.
Note that I doubt I really did anything useful there, mostly just some (very) small tweaks. My package really needs a (minor) refresh anyways one of these days.

> > (later p7zip versions don't compile anymore or don't work in FreeDOS)
> Ah yes something to do with your
> old
> hack not working anymore /
> LFN issues
> with HX?

The "hack" was something really goofy, and I was surprised it worked. Then again, DR-DOS etc. didn't need it at all! I never understood that. 9.04 compiles for and works there fine. p7zip 9.13 was finally (!) released recently after a long wait, but my attempt to compile it ran into a bunch of incompatibilities (probably something silly at heart, but it seemed like a lot at the time, e.g. Unicode widechar crud). In short, it's not a very friendly app to port to DOS. Safe to say that I'm just glad to unpack .7z files now. :-/

I forget exactly, but I presume the HX issue was that you needed LFN in order to use temporary file names (e.g. blah.7z.tmp), which I thought was unwieldy.

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