Hello Archie!

*** 23.10.03 at 23:52, Archie Swan wrote to Christian Boettger:

 AS> You wrote on 20.10.03 about "new beta Version OpenXP (3.8.13)":

 AS>>> And - when I attempted to use the Archive Viewer to look into
 AS>>> known decent .ZIPs etc., I got loads of error messages
 AS>>> suggesting that the archives were faulty :(

 CB>> Oops. We'll have a look at that. The DOS32 version is not
 CB>> thouroughly tested, as nobody seems to use it (lack of internal
 CB>> clients).

 AS> I've now checked on my "spare" DR-DOS machine - same thing,
 AS> unfortunately, happens.  The archivers aren't found :((

I've now managed to install MS-DOS 6.22 onto one of my machines and I can  
confirm that exactly the same thing happens with that.

Whilst we're talking about DOS, I'm somewhat puzzled why the OpenXP DOS  
archive is named the way it is because DOS doesn't support LFN's. I'm also  
puzzled as to why a non-backwards compatible version of RAR has been used  
to compress the archive. Methinks the whole OpenXP DOS issue needs looking  
at pretty quickly before too many folks are "frightened" away.

Regards,
Martin

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