-=> On 09-23-15  10:36,  Daryl Stout <=-   
    -=> spoke to Kurt Weiske about PKZIP for Win 7 <=-   
      
    DS> Re: PKZIP for Win 7   
       
    > There are 64 bit versions of 7-zip, and 32 bit version of InfoZip. Both have   
    > command-line versions that should work in modern Windows.   
      
    DS> The problem isn't the archivers...I have too many legacy 16-bit   
    DS> programs (including BBS doors) that won't work on Windows 10. So far,   
    DS> in testing things, they seem to work under Windows 7, so that's as far   
    DS> as I'm going, OS wise...whether or not Micr0$0ft likes it or not.   
      
   Actually, my legacy 16-bit programs do not work in my version (64-bit)   
   of windows 7.   Much of my BBS system does work there -- Maximus, Squish   
   and Argus work just fine now that I have switched out PKZIP for the   
   infozip programs zip and unzip.  I'm also able to run some other 16-bit   
   programs using a modified version of DOSBOX called vDOS.  It even allows   
   me to send a print file to an application (I use editpad lite, but   
   notepad would work equally well).  The only thing that I cannot make   
   work perfectly is my BlueWave reader.  It works, but the vDOS version   
   messes with the time stamp on the files.  Hence, I am now running   
   Bluewave in Win XP in a virtual window.   
      
   The virtual window did not seem to work well for Argus -- it kept   
   dropping internet connectivity, but as I said Argus runs in Win 7 now.   
      
                                  Dale Shipp   
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   ... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 23:35:32, 24 Sep 2015   
   ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30   
      
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