[arachne] Re: Alternate browser usages

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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:21:41 +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:54:07 -0600, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:

> The file unzipped with PKUNZIP v2.50 plus CWSDPMI onto a FAT16
> hard disk would not work.

> The same result when using Arachne's UNZIP.EXE, and UNZIP32.EXE.

> The same zip file, using UNZIP32, on the same computer, on the
> same hard disk, but with the disk now fdisked and formatted to
> FAT32, was unzipped to a working installation, but needed w98's
> DOS on a boot floppy to access the hard disk during the unzipping
> and running. No memory expansion/extension software was/is
> installed on that boot floppy.

> The only -- repeat, ONLY -- differences are the format of the
> hard disk and the DOS being used.


Greg,

Sorry to say that I'm at a loss to explain the trobles you had.

However... these are my results.
(in both cases... zip.exe is the 32bit DOS version included with Arachne)

--- Booted to OpenDos v7.01, Zipslack in CD (drive Q:)
-- command line ... unzip.exe q:\zipslack\zipslack.zip -d h:\
-- drive H: is a 1.9gig FAT16 partition

--- edited results of ... tree.com h:\linux > \od7fat16.txt ---------

      bytes  files  path
  1,491,245      8  h:\linux
    701,148      5  h:\linux\boot
    624,990      6  h:\linux\root
     58,284      8  h:\linux\loadlin
     77,428      8  h:\linux\loadlin\doc
    158,251      9  h:\linux\loadlin\src
  5,686,059    149  h:\linux\bin
     83,809    670  h:\linux\dev

<snip>

  9,271,867    188  h:\linux\sbin
      1,950      9  h:\linux\media
          0      1  h:\linux\media\hd0
          0      1  h:\linux\media\hd1
          0      1  h:\linux\media\dvd0
          0      1  h:\linux\media\dvd1
          0      1  h:\linux\media\zip0
          0      1  h:\linux\media\zip1
          0      1  h:\linux\media\memory0
          0      1  h:\linux\media\memory1
          0      1  h:\linux\media\floppy0
          0      1  h:\linux\media\floppy1
          0      1  h:\linux\media\cdrom0
          0      1  h:\linux\media\cdrom1
          0      1  h:\linux\media\cdrecord.{_d
          0      1  h:\linux\media\cdrecord.{_e
total files 13,828
total bytes 138,189,649
disk free space 1,137,836,032
_________________________________________________________________________

--- Booted to MsDos v7 (Win98 1st edition) Zipslack in CD (drive Q:)
-- command line ... unzip.exe q:\zipslack\zipslack.zip -d d:\
-- drive D: is a 5gig FAT32 partition

--- edited results of ... tree.com d:\linux > \ms7fat32.txt ---------

      bytes  files  path
  1,491,245      8  d:\linux
    701,148      5  d:\linux\boot
    624,990      6  d:\linux\root
     58,284      8  d:\linux\loadlin
     77,428      8  d:\linux\loadlin\doc
    158,251      9  d:\linux\loadlin\src
  5,686,059    149  d:\linux\bin
     83,809    670  d:\linux\dev

<snip>

  9,271,867    188  d:\linux\sbin
      1,950      9  d:\linux\media
          0      1  d:\linux\media\hd0
          0      1  d:\linux\media\hd1
          0      1  d:\linux\media\dvd0
          0      1  d:\linux\media\dvd1
          0      1  d:\linux\media\zip0
          0      1  d:\linux\media\zip1
          0      1  d:\linux\media\memory0
          0      1  d:\linux\media\memory1
          0      1  d:\linux\media\floppy0
          0      1  d:\linux\media\floppy1
          0      1  d:\linux\media\cdrom0
          0      1  d:\linux\media\cdrom1
          0      1  d:\linux\media\cdrecord.{_d
          0      1  d:\linux\media\cdrecord.{_e
total files 13,828
total bytes 138,189,649
disk free space 2,147,418,112
_________________________________________________________________________


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