On Mon, 20 May 2002 15:39:44 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sun, 19 May 2002 23:21:31 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Everything is also still there on the Lineo FTP site. >> For all the good it will do. >> Since all of the old stuff is corruted. :(( >> ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/devsup/ > Yeah, it's there after all. I was able to download DR-DOS 3.33 and > 3.41. But they won't boot. And seem to consist of only four > files. Is that possible? Very tiny. All they have available for D/L are the "boot" files. drbios.sys drbdos.sys command.com (along with sys.com for creating a bootable diskette) But, as you also found-out.... they are corrupt and will not work. Way-back-when... someone on this list (don't remember who), suggested a p[ossible explaination. Those files may have been uploaded to an FTP sever using ASCII mode instead of BINARY mode. Once on that FTP site. Those (now corrupt), files were then zipped into the files we now see available for D/L. This theory seems to be supported by this.... (note the dates/times of the files within each zip file) 61,732 4-09-01 7:16p c:\drdos.old\drdos331.zip 31,772 7-01-99 11:14a c:\drdos.old\drdos331\command.com 41,540 7-01-99 11:14a c:\drdos.old\drdos331\drbdos.sys 15,562 7-01-99 11:15a c:\drdos.old\drdos331\drbios.sys 13,791 7-01-99 11:15a c:\drdos.old\drdos331\sys.com 62,658 4-09-01 7:16p c:\drdos.old\drdos332.zip 31,911 7-01-99 11:16a c:\drdos.old\drdos332\command.com 42,184 7-01-99 11:16a c:\drdos.old\drdos332\drbdos.sys 16,424 7-01-99 11:16a c:\drdos.old\drdos332\drbios.sys 13,791 7-01-99 11:16a c:\drdos.old\drdos332\sys.com 62,807 4-09-01 7:16p c:\drdos.old\drdos333.zip 31,945 7-01-99 11:17a c:\drdos.old\drdos333\command.com 38,299 7-01-99 11:17a c:\drdos.old\drdos333\drbdos.sys 15,821 7-01-99 11:17a c:\drdos.old\drdos333\drbios.sys 13,791 7-01-99 11:17a c:\drdos.old\drdos333\sys.com 61,143 4-09-01 7:16p c:\drdos.old\drdos334.zip 32,719 7-01-99 11:18a c:\drdos.old\drdos334\command.com 38,782 7-01-99 11:18a c:\drdos.old\drdos334\drbdos.sys 15,855 7-01-99 11:18a c:\drdos.old\drdos334\drbios.sys 9,922 7-01-99 11:18a c:\drdos.old\drdos334\sys.com 61,488 4-09-01 7:15p c:\drdos.old\drdos335.zip 33,167 7-01-99 11:19a c:\drdos.old\drdos335\command.com 38,878 7-01-99 11:19a c:\drdos.old\drdos335\drbdos.sys 15,868 7-01-99 11:19a c:\drdos.old\drdos335\drbios.sys 10,168 7-01-99 11:19a c:\drdos.old\drdos335\sys.com 62,506 4-09-01 7:15p c:\drdos.old\drdos340.zip 33,600 7-01-99 11:20a c:\drdos.old\drdos340\command.com 39,444 7-01-99 11:20a c:\drdos.old\drdos340\drbdos.sys 16,349 7-01-99 11:20a c:\drdos.old\drdos340\drbios.sys 9,900 7-01-99 11:20a c:\drdos.old\drdos340\sys.com 64,666 4-09-01 7:15p c:\drdos.old\drdos341.zip 36,138 7-01-99 11:21a c:\drdos.old\drdos341\command.com 39,717 7-01-99 11:21a c:\drdos.old\drdos341\drbdos.sys 18,504 7-01-99 11:21a c:\drdos.old\drdos341\drbios.sys 9,870 7-01-99 11:21a c:\drdos.old\drdos341\sys.com 68,781 4-09-01 7:15p c:\drdos.old\drdos34b.zip 35,901 7-01-99 11:22a c:\drdos.old\drdos34b\command.com 40,754 7-01-99 11:22a c:\drdos.old\drdos34b\drbdos.sys 21,235 7-01-99 11:22a c:\drdos.old\drdos34b\drbios.sys 10,506 7-01-99 11:22a c:\drdos.old\drdos34b\sys.com 64,868 4-09-01 7:15p c:\drdos.old\drdos34t.zip 36,138 7-01-99 11:23a c:\drdos.old\drdos34t\command.com 39,994 7-01-99 11:23a c:\drdos.old\drdos34t\drbdos.sys 18,575 7-01-99 11:23a c:\drdos.old\drdos34t\drbios.sys 9,870 7-01-99 11:23a c:\drdos.old\drdos34t\sys.com 69,352 4-09-01 7:11p c:\drdos.old\drdos50.zip 33,014 7-01-99 11:24a c:\drdos.old\drdos50\command.com 17,465 7-01-99 11:24a c:\drdos.old\drdos50\ibmbio.com 40,592 7-01-99 11:24a c:\drdos.old\drdos50\ibmdos.com 10,648 7-01-99 11:24a c:\drdos.old\drdos50\sys.com 70,687 4-09-01 7:13p c:\drdos.old\drdos5b2.zip 32,943 7-01-99 11:24a c:\drdos.old\drdos5b2\command.com 17,317 7-01-99 11:24a c:\drdos.old\drdos5b2\ibmbio.com 47,580 7-01-99 11:25a c:\drdos.old\drdos5b2\ibmdos.com 10,581 7-01-99 11:25a c:\drdos.old\drdos5b2\sys.com 70,042 4-09-01 7:13p c:\drdos.old\drdos5b3.zip 33,226 7-01-99 11:25a c:\drdos.old\drdos5b3\command.com 17,464 7-01-99 11:26a c:\drdos.old\drdos5b3\ibmbio.com 40,554 7-01-99 11:26a c:\drdos.old\drdos5b3\ibmdos.com 11,604 7-01-99 11:26a c:\drdos.old\drdos5b3\sys.com 80,838 4-10-01 11:20p c:\drdos.old\drdos60.zip 51,251 7-01-99 11:26a c:\drdos.old\drdos60\command.com 24,529 7-01-99 11:26a c:\drdos.old\drdos60\ibmbio.com 39,803 7-01-99 11:26a c:\drdos.old\drdos60\ibmdos.com 9,120 7-01-99 11:26a c:\drdos.old\drdos60\sys.com 85,387 4-08-01 10:10p c:\drdos.old\novld7b3.zip 55,179 7-01-99 11:32a c:\drdos.old\novld7b3\command.com 26,242 7-01-99 11:32a c:\drdos.old\novld7b3\ibmbio.com 29,658 7-01-99 11:32a c:\drdos.old\novld7b3\ibmdos.com 16,693 7-01-99 11:32a c:\drdos.old\novld7b3\sys.com 87,628 4-08-01 10:09p c:\drdos.old\novldos7.zip 56,833 7-01-99 11:31a c:\drdos.old\novldos7\command.com 27,967 7-01-99 11:31a c:\drdos.old\novldos7\ibmbio.com 29,867 7-01-99 11:31a c:\drdos.old\novldos7\ibmdos.com 16,894 7-01-99 11:31a c:\drdos.old\novldos7\sys.com So.... we can now see that on 7-01-99 between 11:14a and 11:32a all of the individual files were uploaded. Since every one of these files is corrupt. The upload was almost certainly done in ASCII mode instead of BINARY. Unless of coarse, the files were *already* corrupt *before* that upload was done. We will probably never know for sure. :((( -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
