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p7zip pp7zipp ppp7zippp ... stupidity goes on (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 28.07.2010, 03:23

> > I agree ... almost. Sure, I think this is a PKUNZIP bug
> As above NOT a bug just extra validation required by some end users

Heh ??? Failure to extract is a feature ??? Or do you expect your PKUNZIP to "protect" you from "LF-only" Linux texts this way ???

> as several DOS experts had all moved on

They f***ed off. Where ? To DOG-BOX , DOG-EMU & Co

> Well to be honest I am NOT planning to release anything in the .7Z or
> .RAR formats for DOS. Why?

Pure inertia

> Thus from a standards and compatibility aspect IMHO .ZIP is still a good
> choice to make software accessible to all in a format that is widely understood.

Especially "good" choice if you fill your ZIP with NTLFN crap

> agree RAR and .7Z are excellent but the problem is

that RAR is proprietary.

> the majority of people even in the days when DOS was popular were
> already widely using .ZIP which remains common to this day.

Because ARC had got assassinated before

> However note if I release something for Linux I would use gzip.



FYI, my releases are either TAR inside ZIP (8086-compatible) or TAR inside 7-ZIP. If someone can't extract it, it's his fault, not mine

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Complete thread:

• cdrtools_from_Schily - david, 21.07.2010, 21:20 (Announce)
  • cdrtools_from_Schily - Arjay, 21.07.2010, 21:59
    • cdrtools_from_Schily - Rugxulo, 21.07.2010, 22:32
      • cdrtools_from_Schily - Arjay, 21.07.2010, 23:13
        • cdrtools_from_Schily - Rugxulo, 22.07.2010, 01:04
          • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - DOS386, 23.07.2010, 07:19
            • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - david, 23.07.2010, 21:10
              • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - DOS386, 24.07.2010, 12:06
                • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - david, 24.07.2010, 15:28
                  • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - DOS386, 24.07.2010, 15:34
              • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - Rugxulo, 24.07.2010, 19:56
                • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - Zyzzle, 24.07.2010, 22:51
                  • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - Rugxulo, 24.07.2010, 23:44
                    • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - DOS386, 25.07.2010, 06:33
                      • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - Zyzzle, 25.07.2010, 12:26
                        • fixing p7zip 4.65 to make .ZIP use DOS, not Unix, as host OS - Rugxulo, 27.07.2010, 01:59
                          • fixing p7zip 4.65 to make .ZIP use DOS, not Unix, as host OS - DOS386, 27.07.2010, 02:38
                          • fixing p7zip 4.65 to make .ZIP use DOS, not Unix, as host OS - Zyzzle, 27.07.2010, 03:40
                            • fixing p7zip 4.65 to make .ZIP use DOS, not Unix, as host OS - DOS386, 27.07.2010, 03:49
                          • fixing p7zip 4.65 to make .ZIP use DOS, not Unix, as host OS - Zyzzle, 27.07.2010, 07:23
                        • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - Arjay, 27.07.2010, 14:31
                • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - david, 27.07.2010, 08:10
                • cdrtools_from_Schily | NTLFN problem of 7-ZIP | 7-ZIP vs ZIP - david, 27.07.2010, 14:34
      • cdrtools_from_Schily - david, 22.07.2010, 07:48
    • cdrtools_from_Schily - david, 22.07.2010, 07:52
      • cdrtools_from_Schily - Arjay, 27.07.2010, 15:54
        • p7zip p7zip p7zip ... - Rugxulo, 27.07.2010, 16:46
          • p7zip p7zip p7zip ... - Arjay, 27.07.2010, 18:09
            • p7zip p7zip p7zip ... - Rugxulo, 28.07.2010, 02:28
              • p7zip p7zip p7zip ... - Arjay, 28.07.2010, 08:02
            • p7zip pp7zipp ppp7zippp ... stupidity goes on - DOS386, 28.07.2010, 03:23
              • p7zip pp7zipp ppp7zippp ... stupidity goes on - Arjay, 28.07.2010, 08:07
                • .ARC compression format - Rugxulo, 28.07.2010, 21:27
                • p7zip pp7zipp ppp7zippp ... stupidity goes on | UI21DEB used - DOS386, 29.07.2010, 05:56
                  • p7zip pp7zipp ppp7zippp ... stupidity goes on | UI21DEB used - DOS386, 29.07.2010, 05:58
                    • p7zip pp7zipp ppp7zippp ... stupidity goes on | UI21DEB used - DOS386, 29.07.2010, 06:05
                      • p7zip pp7zipp ppp7zippp ... stupidity goes on | UI21DEB used - Rugxulo, 29.07.2010, 08:37
                      • p7zip pp7zipp ppp7zippp ... stupidity goes on | UI21DEB used - DOS386, 31.07.2010, 07:53
                  • p7zip pp7zipp ppp7zippp ... stupidity goes on | UI21DEB used - Khusraw, 29.07.2010, 09:21
          • p7zip p7zip p7zip ... - Zyzzle, 28.07.2010, 08:22
            • p7zip p7zip p7zip ... - Rugxulo, 28.07.2010, 21:14
              • p7zip p7zip p7zip ... - Arjay, 01.08.2010, 12:05