Re: [Freedos-devel] re:Tiny Inflate + UNZIPJR or PKSFXjr for the installer

[Steve N. <uso...@ve...>]

At Mon, 19 Jan 2004 4:40pm +0200, Luchezar Georgiev wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > The mini-extractor will be fine for the virtual
> > installer boot floppy to put on, especially if it is 808x compatible and
> > therefore suitable for the "people who cannot boot from CD-ROM boot disk"
> > as well.
> 
> Exactly. UNZJR *can* be 8086-compatible as "tiny inflate" is in C,
> albeit its "int" is 32-bit :-{

Turbo C has a 32-bit integer type, of course - the long int. ;)  So not 
impossible :)

> > If we can do so under GPL, we should add RAR and UNRAR to the distro
> 
> RAR and UNRAR are too big to be added to anythig but the CD-ROM edition,
> and RAR is shareware :-(

And with no freeware let alone O/S DOS RARing tool that I am aware of, I 
would not like to see RAR as the compression format of choice, being that 
this is an O/S DOS.

-uso.
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