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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote:

> I went looking for ltools yesterday, wanting to investigate a bit further.
> I found the latest version (6.6) at the author's site and downloaded it.
> On unzipping the 2+MB file though, I was horrified to see all manner of
> gif files, html files, java files - and who knows what else not directly
> related to accessing Linux from DOS - being inflated.  It seems this
> latest version - and perhaps several generations of its predecessors - are
> geared to running, not on DOS in the BL sense ("real DOS" as Steven called
> it), but under Windows.  The one I got specifically talked about using it
> under XP and 2K.  This leaves me looking for a real DOS version of ltools.
> Can anyone point me to one?  Has anyone here used ltools before?  Could I
> maybe just delete a whole lot of this crap that I unzipped, leaving only
> some key DOS executables and get the functionality I want from 6.6?
> Maybe I should write the author and ask him . . .
>
> Input on this appreciated

Sindi spared me the humiliation of exposing my advancing senility
publically by writing me offlist about a stripped-down ltools package she
had sent me not long ago for inclusion at my BL add-ons site - but I won't
be so kind to myself :) .  I just went and checked, and indeed, there is
there a *much* smaller zip file called "ltools.zip" with likely only the
needed executables for using ltools under pure DOS.  Thank you Sindi for
doing the footwork in creating this much-trimmed version, and for
contacting me about it - both the first time (which I now, of course,
remember), and the second time.  For those likewise interested in ltools
for DOS - not Windows - take a look at my add-ons site and download
Sindi's ltools.zip package

James