Subj : Re: PKZIP for Win 7
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Thu Sep 24 2015 23:30:02

 -=> On 09-23-15  10:36,  Daryl Stout <=-
 -=> spoke to Kurt Weiske about PKZIP for Win 7 <=-

 DS> Re: PKZIP for Win 7
 
 > There are 64 bit versions of 7-zip, and 32 bit version of InfoZip. Both have
 > command-line versions that should work in modern Windows.

 DS> The problem isn't the archivers...I have too many legacy 16-bit
 DS> programs (including BBS doors) that won't work on Windows 10. So far,
 DS> in testing things, they seem to work under Windows 7, so that's as far
 DS> as I'm going, OS wise...whether or not Micr0$0ft likes it or not.

Actually, my legacy 16-bit programs do not work in my version (64-bit)
of windows 7.   Much of my BBS system does work there -- Maximus, Squish
and Argus work just fine now that I have switched out PKZIP for the
infozip programs zip and unzip.  I'm also able to run some other 16-bit
programs using a modified version of DOSBOX called vDOS.  It even allows
me to send a print file to an application (I use editpad lite, but
notepad would work equally well).  The only thing that I cannot make
work perfectly is my BlueWave reader.  It works, but the vDOS version
messes with the time stamp on the files.  Hence, I am now running
Bluewave in Win XP in a virtual window.

The virtual window did not seem to work well for Argus -- it kept
dropping internet connectivity, but as I said Argus runs in Win 7 now.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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