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Scunner · Jul 2nd, 2004, 2:45 PM

How do you make dos compress files into a zipfile?

Manual e-mail:

I know which servers I am going to use and the e-mails and stuff but I need to know the commands to do it blah.

Someone help me!

erebus · Aug 7th, 2004, 3:30 PM

I don't think(or rather, i'm not sure) if DOS has a zip compressor budled with it. I do remember that eariler versions included a compression/decomression scheme of some sort, but not zip. Your best bet would be to aquire some third-party software, preferably OSS. If you can't compile or get the binaries for your DOS version, a command-line version of winzip or winrar should be more than sufficient. One question: Are you actually running DOS or are you referring to the command interpreter that comes with most Windows implementations(which is not DOS, but rather, an interpreter that acts as a DOS emulator)?

Infinite Recursion · Aug 7th, 2004, 9:14 PM

Look into pkunzip for DOS

Aug 7th, 2004, 3:30 PM	#2
erebus Programmer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: /dev/null Posts: 65 Rep Power: 5	I don't think(or rather, i'm not sure) if DOS has a zip compressor budled with it. I do remember that eariler versions included a compression/decomression scheme of some sort, but not zip. Your best bet would be to aquire some third-party software, preferably OSS. If you can't compile or get the binaries for your DOS version, a command-line version of winzip or winrar should be more than sufficient. One question: Are you actually running DOS or are you referring to the command interpreter that comes with most Windows implementations(which is not DOS, but rather, an interpreter that acts as a DOS emulator)? __________________ <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" - Mao Tse-Tung</span></span>

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Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	Look into pkunzip for DOS __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

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