l.d.,

It is generally bad practice to go run a self-extracting .EXE file from within
a download directory.  I could get a mess of files mixed in.  Fortunately in
this case, I was accessing drives H and I read-only from MS-DOS using IHPFS.
But I tried copying that file to E:\ARACH150, which would be G:\ARACH150 under
OS/2, and got the same error.  I have recently been getting some horribly slow
Web pages where there were images.  Those Web pages with minimal or no graphics
were much nicer, like the weather pages at
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/textversion/main.html and links.
I like the text version of this main page so much I even use it when running
Netscape Communicator.

I like .ZIP files better than self-extracting .EXE files because .ZIP files
permit viewing contents with unzip -l.  This helps me choose a directory.  If
the directory is already part of the archive, then I can unzip right into the
root directory without a mess, rather than create a redundant directory.

By the way, is postal chess player Herbert Best related to you?

Thomas Mueller
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