Hey all, was trying to figure out the proper command line for compress and decompression programs for FMail 2.0.1/Win32 .. the docs say to look for compression/32 and decompression/32 but I dont see it anywhere in FSetup ..

I need to add support for ZIP and LHA packets but I'm not understanding it for some reason ... getting old I guess

Any help would be great! - Thanx

... I have a really good memory, except it's short.

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Hi Dave,

On 2022-09-14 11:23:23, you wrote to All:

Hey all, was trying to figure out the proper command line for compress
and decompression programs for FMail 2.0.1/Win32 .. the docs say to
look for compression/32 and decompression/32 but I dont see it
anywhere in FSetup ..

FSetup was renamed to FConfig for the 1.69 version. Are you sure you are using 2.0 ? ;)

Also since FMail is Win32 only now. The specific Compression/32 and Decompression/32 were removed. You can just use the Compression and Decompression settings. I guess the docs need to be updated to fully reflect this.

I need to add support for ZIP and LHA packets but I'm not
understanding it for some reason ... getting old I guess

I use these settings:

ARC arc a
ZIP zip -jq9
LZH lha aif -q1

ARC arc en
ZIP unzip -ojq %a -d %f
LZH lha eqi -w=%f %a

They work for both Windows and Linux, if you have those programs in your path. For windows these are the info lines the programs print on screen:

ARC - Archive utility, Version 6.02, created in January of 1989
Copyright 1985-89 by System Enhancement Associates, Inc.; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Info-ZIP - Type 'zip "-L"' for software license.
Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008).

UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP. Maintained by C. Spieler. Send
bug reports using http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html; see README for details.

LHarc for UNIX V 1.02 Copyright(C) 1989 Y.Tagawa
LHx for MSDOS V C2.01 Copyright(C) 1990 H.Yoshizaki
LHx(arc) for OSK V 2.01 Modified 1990 Momozou
LHa for UNIX V 1.00 Copyright(C) 1992 Masaru Oki
LHa for UNIX V 1.14 Modified 1995 Nobutaka Watazaki
LHa for UNIX V 1.14i Modified 2000 Tsugio Okamoto
Autoconfiscated 2001-2005 Koji Arai

Bye, Wilfred.

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On 14 Sep 2022, Wilfred van Velzen said the following...

Also since FMail is Win32 only now. The specific Compression/32 and Decompression/32 were removed. You can just use the Compression and Decompression settings. I guess the docs need to be updated to fully reflect this.

I use these settings:

ARC arc a
ZIP zip -jq9
LZH lha aif -q1

Thanks mate. Works good now.

... This virus requires Microsoft Windows 3.x

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