While The Floppy Edition of FreeDOS does not use zip compression for several reasons, it could be useful to provide a 16-bit real mode unzip program in that version of the release.
However, the CD and USB versions of FreeDOS do not need a 16-bit unzip program. First the CD/DVD drivers available to be provided with FreeDOS require a 386 or better computer. You will be hard pressed to find a 286 or lesser based machine that includes a CD-ROM drive.
Furthermore, all zip files provided with FreeDOS on the CD/USB media are in zipped package format. Those files should be extracted using a package aware unzip program. Included and installed with FreeDOS is the 16-bit real mode zip-based command-line package installer FDINST.
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I think this issue can be closed. Since this bug report was entered, we added unzip to the install media -- except for the LegacyCD, that request is in issue 54 in the FreeDOS GitLab tracker.
We can close this bug and use issue 54 at GitLab for the LegacyCD.
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The 16-bit real mode unzipper can be found on the iBiblio archives:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/info-zip/unzip/6.0/
While The Floppy Edition of FreeDOS does not use zip compression for several reasons, it could be useful to provide a 16-bit real mode unzip program in that version of the release.
However, the CD and USB versions of FreeDOS do not need a 16-bit unzip program. First the CD/DVD drivers available to be provided with FreeDOS require a 386 or better computer. You will be hard pressed to find a 286 or lesser based machine that includes a CD-ROM drive.
Furthermore, all zip files provided with FreeDOS on the CD/USB media are in zipped package format. Those files should be extracted using a package aware unzip program. Included and installed with FreeDOS is the 16-bit real mode zip-based command-line package installer FDINST.
unzip 6.0 is delivered with FDT2306 see screenshot
I think this issue can be closed. Since this bug report was entered, we added
unzipto the install media -- except for the LegacyCD, that request is in issue 54 in the FreeDOS GitLab tracker.We can close this bug and use issue 54 at GitLab for the LegacyCD.
Closing this bug since it was fixed. See issue 54 at GitLab for the LegacyCD