To: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Comment-To: "Alain" References: <002a01c052eb$925351a0$0400000a AT alain-nb> Message-Id: <2.07b7.JAR4.G4CD7L@belous.munic.msk.su> From: "Arkady V.Belousov" Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:04:33 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Locus X-Mailer: dMail [Demos Mail for DOS v2.07b7] Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.50 for DOS Lines: 34 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Comment-To: Alain Hi! 20-ξΟΡ-2000 09:49 alainm AT pobox DOT com (Alain) wrote to : A> Alain M. wrote: >> AM> Yeees !!! I upgraded both ZIP 2.3 and UNZIP 5.41 and it works very >> AM> nice with LFN :-)) >> AM> FWIK it is the first free archiever that can be used in a batch ____________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> AM> file (for automated work) that uses LFN :)) A> Arkady B. wrote: AB>> Don't know about others but WinRAR distributive includes command line AB>>RAR.EXE which works as Win32 console app and, of course, fully support LFN AB>>and all RAR possibilities like 1M window for packing. A> Sorry, you missed one point: Info-Zip is FREE and RAR is shareware... 1. RAR includes free UNRAR.EXE and UNRAR.DLL with sources. 2. As I say "don't know about others" - but sure, there _is_ free archivers with LFN support beside InfoZIP. 3. ZIP format inconvenient (excessive data, called "Directory", which gives almost nothing except additional archive size; no support for recovery information; very odd archive splitting by parts; etc). A> I had a little experience with RAR because of you (Arkady) because you use A> it to distribute ctmouse and I didn't like it. I also don't see why you use A> a comercial archiever to distribute a free software !!! 1. I buy RAR and free in creating any archive by it. 2. Until you use only UNRAR (and this is sufficient for use contents of archives from me) there absolutely nothing problems. 3. When I switch from ARJ to RAR it was almost best archiver in sense of packing. Now this is not so but RAR still good, it is Russian and it stable. 4. RAR allows create script controlled self extracting archive (for DOS this is IDOS.SFX).