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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> >  Look for sylpheed_manual.tgz
>
> Well done, Ron!
>
> The problems I encountered with the version you sent me were
> compounded by the fact that I had to unzip it on the W98
> computer, then transfer it by floppy disk to this computer for
> copying into BL.

Get gunzip from Slackware 4.0.  To see what files are where, find 
MANIFEST.gz and read it with zless.  There is probably a gunzip.tgz 
package.  YOu can install the whole package or unpackage it and copy over 
only that file.  Sometimes a program has 'dependencies', meaning in needs 
certain libraries.  ldd gunzip shows the dependencies and whether they are 
missing.  It only needs two libraries that you already have.

Copy the package to /tmp and type tar -zxvf to unpackage it (like pkunzip 
-d, into subdirectories).  Then find -name gunzip to see what subdirectory 
it ended up in (in this case ./bin).  cd bin and then cp gunzip /bin - 
this puts it in the /bin directory.  ./bin is /tmp/bin, /bin is the main 
directory for programs.  Then you can gunzip sylpheed_manual.gz and copy 
it to some place you can find it.

> Although W98 showed the files on the floppy disk with their long
> filenames, mc displayed only their DOS-style short names, once
> the floppy disk was mounted.

If you copy files to DOS floppy disks they get truncated to DOS file 
names.  The DOS floppy disks are FAT16 and cannot handle long file names. 
Same problem using a DOS-formatted USB memory stick.  To avoid this, you 
can create a .tgz package of all the files.  If they are in subdirectory 
/tmp/sylpheed cd there and type
tar -zcvf sylpheed.tgz *

This makes a package of all the files.  Copy it to floppy disk (assuming 
it will fit on one disk, of course) and then to where you want the files 
to end up, and tar -zxvf sylpheed.tgz.

> After I copied the files to the recommended subdirectory, I had to
> use mc to rename every one of them with their long filenames.
>
> Another thing I have noticed with mc is that it can't find links
> to allow viewing (F3) of an html file.

It may not be set up to use links.  Read the manual if you can find it.

> I have a lot to learn about BL. If I knew more I could probably sort
> these things out for myself rather than ask other people all time for
> the answers.

The book should help a lot.

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