Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! 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> -- Glenn http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --