On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:25:56 -0500 "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:55:20 -0700, "Destiny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Previous discussions inquired of locating old dos install files. > > http://386page.gooddays.org has dos/windows/os2/deskview of various flavors > > including dos 3.30. > > I downloaded MSDOS, version 3.30 from that site. > > Two problems: > > The downloads are RAR files. The only UNRAR utility for DOS > that I could find is an expensive shareware program. The > shareware program works fine, but I wish I could find a freeware > UNRAR utility for DOS. > > After I UNRARED the download, I found that the archive consisted > of two IMZ files. It is my understanding that you can't do > anything with an IMZ file unless you have a program named WinImage, > a Windows program. I don't know if WinImage is freeware, shareware, > or payware. Maybe WinImage comes "free" with some versions of > Windows. I don't know. > > Does anybody know of a DOS program that can do something with > an IMZ file? > > I don't understand why anyone would be offering downloads for DOS > operating systems that you can't do anything with to prepare the > boot disks and extract the files unless you have Windows. It doesn't > make sense. > > BTW, I already tried re-naming these IMZ files to IMG files and > attempted to do something with them by using DR-DOS DISKCOPY. > Also I tried to do something with them by using DCP. I couldn't > do anything with these files by using any of the software that I > already have. I don't want to have to download and install another > one of those awful Windows programs on my other machine, which is a > WIN95 machine, because that one already runs entirely too slow as a > result of all those awful Windows programs that are already installed > on it. > > Sam Heywood > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ > I feel your pain... http://www.winimage.com/extract.htm ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/unrar250.zip 32bit; ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/rarx290.exe
