[arachne] Re: Alternate browser usages

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:18:36 +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:

> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:14:30 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> Try unzip.exe instead of pkunzip.exe
>> example command line....
>> c:\arachne\unzip.exe d:\zipslack\zipslack.zip -d c:\

> I copied UNZIP.EXE from C:\ARACHNE to D:\ and executed
> unzip.exe zipslack.zip -d d:\
> since I want it installed on the D: disk. The result was

> Warning: TZ environment variable not found, cannot use UTC time
> Archive:  ZIPSLACK.ZIP
> caution: filename not matched: -d
> caution: filename not matched: d:

>> If that still does niot work... you'll need to free-up some con

> I rebooted with F5 to bypass CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and
> checked with mem /c that the memory was clear. Then I tried
> again with both PKUNZIP.EXE and UNZIP.EXE.

> Same results.

> I also tried changing the D:\ at the end to C:\ to see if either
> PKUNZIP.EXE or UNZIP.EXE would install to the C: drive, but I got
> the same error messages.

>> It's that 1st 640kb that's the problem.

> MAPMEM shows 58,208 bytes used for DOS, 4,960 bytes for COMMAND
> and 592,112 bytes free. I can't get it lower than that.

> Ron Clarke suggested that the problem was that PKUNZIP was trying
> to unzip it as a FAT16 file, and that was the reason for the
> error messages. He sent me CWSDPMI.EXE which he said should be in
> path when PKUNZIP.EXE is run, so it can unzip as a FAT32 file.

> I put it in the same subdirectory as PKUNZIP, and added that
> subdirectory to the path but it made no difference.

> Then I copied PKUNZIP and CWSDPMI to the D: root directory where
> ZIPSLACK.ZIP is currently stored and ran everything from there,
> but got the same error messages.


Since you now have both unzip.exe and zipslack.zip in the root dir of d:

d:<enter>
cd \<enter>
unzip zipslack.zip<enter>


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