Dilwyn Jones wrote:
onto a QL disk?"
> 4. How to get past the catch 22 of needing to unzip the Unzip program
> on a QL when you haven't got Unzip already. (use the JRH SFX procedure
> to make Unzip self-extract and how to work around it on the 1% of
> systems the SFX doesn't work, or order a copy from a PD service on
> floppy disk)
The QBBS method developed by TOny Price in 1988 of processing the
unzip_exe into unzip_exe_hdr and then using a basic program
(QDOS_HDR_BAS I think) to re-construct is totally foolproof on all systems.
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