Hello @all, I'm new here.
Thanks at the programmers for creating DOSBox: it keeps my DOS programs running also at Vista 64.
But I have a little problem with the program:
If I extract files from archives (LHA, PKZIP, ARJ) in the DOSBox, all extracted files get the actual file date/time instead of their original file date.
Can I change this behaviour anyhow or is this a bug?
My mounted files system is NTFS.
this something we simply didn't add support for.
mostly because it isn't very straight forward with timezones and on different Operating systems
Water flows down the stream
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It would be good to have this function in future DOSBox versions.
May be configurable and switched off by default.
I'm saving old software for computer museums, so I often must handle archives having no modern extract program (such as .DWC, .ICE or .ARC).
Another little problem: At directories containing a sub directory, which name starts with the character "!", the ".." line exists twice in the DOS Norton Commander.
wrote:I'm saving old software for computer museums, so I often must handle archives having no modern extract program (such as .DWC, .ICE or .ARC).
Have you tried MS Virtual PC, or VMWare or Qemu or Bochs or maybe anything else?
or any of the millions of archive programs you can run on the host (and if your using a 32bit Windows OS then all DOS compression programs will work).
I'm thinking we should block Norton Commander from being executed in DOSBox, to prevent copyright infringement of the program and force people to use their host operating system for the things they were trying to do in NC or equivalent. (Not when booting from an image though).
wrote:or any of the millions of archive programs you can run on the host (and if your using a 32bit Windows OS then all DOS compression programs will work).
That's kind of a short-sighted viewpoint, as 64-bit Windows is becoming very prominent.
There must be modern archivers that can extract .ARC though, it was pretty common before .ZIP
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(file_format)
PeaZip is shown as supporting.
As well as Uniextract
https://legroom.net/files/software/uniextract_changelog.txt
Not sure about 7-Zip\Winrar.
I mentioned 32bit Windows since if I don't someone else would, 64bit is gaining in popularity but it is by no means the average OS.
wrote:I'm thinking we should block Norton Commander from being executed in DOSBox
Please do *NOT* block NC from being run under DOSBox! (see below)
wrote:to prevent copyright infringement of the program
I myself _own_ versions 1.0 through 5.0 (as well as NC95, which IMHO was a piece o' crap).
wrote:and force people to use their host operating system for the things they were trying to do in NC or equivalent
I *still* use NC 5.0 on a daily basis... under Windows 98SE, as well as Windows XPee, and a LOT of times from DOSBox 😀
Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel
http://www.richnagel.net
