Looking for Extraction tools for 7z and Shrinkler

[paul1981]

If you still use Imploader just remember the 040/060 problem:

http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/explode-7

[paul1981]

The Imploded crunched files have internal lib so no external lib required and that doesn't seem to have issues with 040/060.

Ah okay, it's been a while since I used it (1990's)!  I'll have to play around with it again at some point. So there must be a choice then between external library (explode) and internal decompressor (inside executable)... and if you have more than one crunched executable then the library would be more space efficient.

So anyway, you're trying to squeeze the OS3.1 disk set onto just one floppy? It certainly sounds ambitious. How small have you gotten it up to yet?

[paul1981]

I only have HDToolbox Imploder crunched since I don't want it to be crunched on the HDD and I can use deploder for that and having the imploder lib in the exe doesn't add much to the filesize so more spacesaving that way. UnLZX is Shrinkler compressed and doesn't need any library. Rest is either in LZX archive or can't be crunched/packed due to the nature of the file (such as startup-seq, a readme file, L:fastfilesystem)

FastFileSystem is in ROM too, so that's another file you can safely delete. Granted, it's a minor update to the v39 version in the 3.0 ROM, but I don't know what the benefit would be except minor bug fixes. You can use OS3.1 with a 3.0 ROM, which would explain why it is included on disk as the user could install the updated v40 version to their RDB if they so desire. So on a 3.1 ROM system, the updated v40.1 FastFileSystem isn't useful as it's already in ROM.

[paul1981]

I wonder if there's not some old A500 HDD controllers software that require FFS on file when setting up the HDD even if it is in ROM, granted it's not the main stream scenario for an OS3.1 installation but still. I've however though about adding an option to decrunch it separately in case it's needed early for HDD setup.

There are some very old controllers which aren't RDB compatible, but I believe those ones would not have drivers in their ROM either, but I'm not sure. Better to cater for the masses being as though you only have one floppy disk to play with.

It sounds an interesting project this, the kind of thing I'd like to muck around with.