• FMail 2.0.1/W32 Archivers

    From Dave Vandermeer@1:229/275 to All on Wed Sep 14 11:23:23 2022
    Hey all, was trying to figure out the proper command line for compress and decompression programs for FMail 2.0.1/Win32 .. the docs say to look for compression/32 and decompression/32 but I dont see it anywhere in FSetup ..

    I need to add support for ZIP and LHA packets but I'm not understanding it for some reason ... getting old I guess

    Any help would be great! - Thanx

    ... I have a really good memory, except it's short.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Internal Dimension [telnet://bbs.idbbs.ca:2023] (1:229/275)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Dave Vandermeer on Wed Sep 14 19:50:30 2022
    Hi Dave,

    On 2022-09-14 11:23:23, you wrote to All:

    Hey all, was trying to figure out the proper command line for compress
    and decompression programs for FMail 2.0.1/Win32 .. the docs say to
    look for compression/32 and decompression/32 but I dont see it
    anywhere in FSetup ..

    FSetup was renamed to FConfig for the 1.69 version. Are you sure you are using 2.0 ? ;)

    Also since FMail is Win32 only now. The specific Compression/32 and Decompression/32 were removed. You can just use the Compression and Decompression settings. I guess the docs need to be updated to fully reflect this.

    I need to add support for ZIP and LHA packets but I'm not
    understanding it for some reason ... getting old I guess

    I use these settings:

    ARC arc a
    ZIP zip -jq9
    LZH lha aif -q1

    ARC arc en
    ZIP unzip -ojq %a -d %f
    LZH lha eqi -w=%f %a

    They work for both Windows and Linux, if you have those programs in your path. For windows these are the info lines the programs print on screen:

    ARC - Archive utility, Version 6.02, created in January of 1989
    Copyright 1985-89 by System Enhancement Associates, Inc.; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
    Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008).

    UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP. Maintained by C. Spieler. Send
    bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for details.

    LHarc for UNIX V 1.02 Copyright(C) 1989 Y.Tagawa
    LHx for MSDOS V C2.01 Copyright(C) 1990 H.Yoshizaki
    LHx(arc) for OSK V 2.01 Modified 1990 Momozou
    LHa for UNIX V 1.00 Copyright(C) 1992 Masaru Oki
    LHa for UNIX V 1.14 Modified 1995 Nobutaka Watazaki
    LHa for UNIX V 1.14i Modified 2000 Tsugio Okamoto
    Autoconfiscated 2001-2005 Koji Arai

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Dave Vandermeer@1:229/275 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sun Sep 18 09:35:06 2022
    On 14 Sep 2022, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...
    Also since FMail is Win32 only now. The specific Compression/32 and Decompression/32 were removed. You can just use the Compression and Decompression settings. I guess the docs need to be updated to fully reflect this.

    I use these settings:

    ARC arc a
    ZIP zip -jq9
    LZH lha aif -q1


    Thanks mate. Works good now.

    ... This virus requires Microsoft Windows 3.x

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