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>From Neo Sze Wee regarding adding RAM:

> You are very right and I find it very wasteful.
> 
> Never mind. I will do survival pc. I like to find out what you can run
> with 486SX with 4 RAM and I am very quite happy with Linux and DOS.

People have all sorts of strange hobbies ;)
You can run Lynx for DOS on 4M RAM nicely.


> > > > How do you use the Debian binaries in BL2?
> > > 
> > > My busybox has a command called ar, so to view the content of a deb file
> > > I issued:
> > > 
> > > ar -t something.deb
> > > 
> > > to extract:
> > > 
> > > at -x something.deb
> > > 
> 
> > 
> > BL2 does not appear to have an ar in its busybox - where do we get one?
> > Is ar small enough to include in BL2?  

> Because it is up to you to specify options when you are compiling. In
> this case Steven has not specified ar when he compiles. I can send you
> the version I have and when you encounter a deb file, just do:
> 
> busybox_I_have ar -t file.deb
 
Are you offering to send me your version of busybox or just ar from it? 
Do I type out the entire line above?  Or just put ar where the other
busybox binaries are located or somewhere on the path and type ar -t
file.deb (or ar -x file.deb to extract the Debian package files).  I don't
understand how busybox works.  If ar cannot be sent as a separate piece,
it is supposedly available in some other Slackware package (fileutils?).

The photopc software for our 1995 Epson digital camera is compiled for
Debian but not for Slackware.  

> > 
> > Sindi Keesan
>