On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:04:45AM +0000, Charles Angelich wrote: > At 06:05 PM 2/7/03 -0500, you wrote: <==== Feb. 7 > > >> I will have to use the W98SE box. > > > >How about .tgz? I don't have this particular file, but transfered > >a long filename .tar.gz from Linux to DOS (FreeDOS) and ended up > >with something like xxx.9, which I renamed to xxx.tgz. > > > >'gzip.exe -d xxx.tgz' produced xxx.tar, and 'tar.exe -xvf xxx.tar' > >untarred the archive. > > > >I'm not sure where I originally got gzip.exe and tar.exe, dated > >1993 and 1990 respectively. > > I think I have gzip here somewhere. I've used my DOS tar so seldom > I'm not certain but it seemed it _used_ to do either gzip or the older > compression automatically without my having to do them seperately?
Yes, I think there is an untargz for DOS that does both. There were whole bunch of different versions of these programs for DOS. > >Personally, I would just do it with (Basic)Linux. > > Yes, that's somewhat doable. I haven't installed BL to my hard drive > in it's own partition as yet. I am still using the ramdrive execution. > I'm waiting on another machine to setup as a Linux only machine. > > It gripes me a bit that the version of catdoc I downloaded is _supposed_ > to be a DOS version but they used *nix archival storage for it. I would > love to make some *nix software available and use a DOS-only archive for > the transfers just to get even. (EG) Is there one? This stuff happens sometimes with multi-platform software. Anyway, as I recall, it was conversion programs for BL, not DOS, that were being discussed. Howard E. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
