Ni> Yes, though you can use a modern native program to zip and unzip the
 Ni> archives. Only the actual game and its maintenance software would need
 Ni> to be run in a DOS emulator.  Why would you need to use the DOS pkunzip?

I'm pretty sure some of the interbbs games rely on using pkzip/pkunzip so it's not really an option.

In any case, the DPMI issue has a workaround so it is possible to use either in original dosemu if needed. :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)