Can you use winzip to zip something to floppy in windows and then use pkunzip in DOS to unpack it?

[Mucman]

Scroll to to bottom to see the problem...

 

[ApacheXMD]

ooh, wolfenstein and doom!

-patchy

 

[Dan]

Add as much RAM as possible and a 540MB HDD. You'll have a nice little box.

 

[Mucman]

oh yeah, I only have 16MB of RAM (used to be on my key-chain ). What is the largest size HD DOS 6 can acomodate (sp?)?

 

[prodigy]

Raptor: call of shadows!!

 

[Mucman]

I can't remember how to use pkzip... I have a game that will take a few disks

pkzip [options] a:\game.zip c:\game

What are the options that you do? Is it -& -rp or something like that?

This is so much fun! This is bringing me back to me geeky elementary/high school days

oh... will doom run alright on a 486?

 

[Mucman]

I think I figured it out!

it's : pkzip a:\game.zip -&s c:\game\*.*

nevermind that's not it , still came up with the disk is full error. It also said it doesn't recognize 's', even though the manual said the is an accepted command!

 

[prodigy]

try this

pkzip -& a:\game.zip c:\game\*.*

 

[pen^2]

try some japanese hentai games... they have ones translated in english i beleive. they are funny as hell, no kidding

 

[pen^2]

X-Com 1/2. one of the best game series i have ever installed on my machines

 

[pen^2]

oh, i have this game called 'ganja farmer'... its a str8 shoot em kinda game with cheesy visuals but its hillarious with its BGM and stufff. not bad for a light passtime

 

[Mucman]

nevermind, I got it posted in GH since it has become a hardware problem now.

 

[Mucman]

Prodigy, sorry but that doesn't work

 

[Mucman]

bump

 

[pen^2]

pkzip -&a game.zip c:\game\*.*

 

[Mucman]

Nah, that didn't work either

 

[pen^2]

why use zip when arj has higher compression ratio on most common files? i know the command string for the arj...

 

[Mucman]

I just chose pkzip because I though I was familiar with it

I'm gonna look for arj for dos now

*ok, I got arj now*

 

[pen^2]

arj a -v1440 -jm -r game.arj c:\game\*.*
shoot me if it doesnt work X_X

 

[Mucman]

Brotherman, you are the man! It even made them into zip files! Does that mean I can use pkunzip to unpack em or do I still need to use unarj?

 

[pen^2]

um... not sure about the zip file stuff... but i know you could use arj.exe x ~~~~ instead of unarj...

 

[Heretik]

It's because .arj files are associated with WinZip. You could use WinZip in Windows to unpack them, but would need unarj to do it in DOS....

 

[pen^2]

oh, now i get what you are saying yeah, by default winzip associates .arj files with itself at the install... but in order to unpack them you need to specify the path for arj.exe in the winzip preferences; however, winace doesnt require supports external decoders for arj, lzh, zip files.

 

[Mucman]

thanks a lot Brotherman! It's all good now! I noticed arj is a lot fast the pkzip too!