huug wrote: > Today, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:03:58 -0400 Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > When I get an unusable install, the first thing I want to do is > >> > copy all the logs to an msdos partition, which can be rather > >> > troublesome without zip. > >> Why? Both winzip and zip magic, and most win users have one or the > >> other, can decompress .tar.gz files. > > msdos, not vfat. I multiboot Linux and OS/2 and PC DOS. No M$, so no > > longnames on FAT. Utility disk boots don't have room for every > OS/2's SuperFAT has long filenames though. Been using OS/2 daily for over five years, and never heard of any such thing. Regardless, that wouldn't help on a DOS floppy boot. > > archiver/unarchiver, so old trusty PKUNZIP for DOS is it. > Bad choise. Use InfoZIP everywhere (though that means you have to > install either emx or DJ on DOS). PKWare isn't compatible across > platforms. All it should need to do is unarchive a ZIP. OTOH, I doubt there is room on my DOS boot floppy to fit emx or DJ. Part of the point of DOS is not needing to "install". Most DOS apps you simply locate in a directory of your choice and run an executable. For anything more complicated, you don't want DOS. -- ". . . . in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you . . . ." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
