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[Nomdo Jansonius <nomdo AT dds.nl>]

Any suggestions for the problem stated below?

I downloaded abiword from the basiclinux add-on page. I put it in a DOS 
drive called temp (a small partition on my HD) that is mounted in 
basiclinux as /dos. When I start basiclinux and look in /dos then the 
file is there but its size is marked as 0 bytes. Back in DOS, the file 
indeed has been reduced to 0 bytes. 

I did see this problem (i.e. disappearing files in a DOS partition that 
is mounted in BL) a few times before (that's why I use a separate DOS 
partition to communicate with BL: once BL deleted my command.com...). 
With abiword, however, it occurs repeatedly and I do not manage to get it 
in BL at all. I downloaded it twice, tried both BL 1.7 and 2.1 and I 
renamed the file in an attempt to bypass the problem. When I put abiword 
in the DOS partition together with about ten other .tgz files, only 
abiword disappeared!

Nomdo