Hello Howard - At 07:13 AM 2/25/03 -0500, you wrote: >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?
DOS predates Linux, there are many not just 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. This used to be 'survpc', not the mini-Linux elist. ;-) Charles.Angelich "DOS Ghost" Tech Website : http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Music,Photos,Stories,etc. Website : http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ Default Browser HomePage : http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/homepage.asp 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
