DOS ain't dead

p7zip p7zip p7zip ... (Announce)

posted by Arjay, 28.07.2010, 08:02

> I heavily doubt they "support" it at all.
I suspect that they will happily do support it but for large organizations with a/c managers who sometimes need to pay for extended life cycles.

> I've noticed other companies charging more for DOS tools also.
Demand and supply

> Strange that a "dead, useless" OS is so lucrative.
Same is true of other "legacy" (current) systems such as MVS, VMS etc.

> Jim Leonard loved RAR for a while (probably still does),
Interesting, Jim may still be using for his own stuff 2008 but in all the last 10 years or so all of his releases have always been in ZIP, e.g. [links=http://www.oldskool.org/pc/MONOTONE]MONOTONE[/link] (2009).

> At least UNRAR exists (which, dare I say it, should be a prerequisite for
> any new formats ... must be able to unpack!).
Indeed.

> Don't use .gz just because of Linux. Or if you do, use 7-Zip's improved
> Deflate (directly or via AdvanceComp's advdef), it gets better results.
>
Ok, ok! If and when I release some of my nix stuff I'll release in several formats. e.g. I been thinking of open sourcing a very large Perl unix project


> *BSD tar uses its own gzip.
fyi, I know gzip has also been ported to games consoles by games developers.

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