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

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Greg Mayman wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:59:30 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > > 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
>
> gunzip is already in the system. And so is unzip. But after
> copying the file manual.zip to / I tried the following:
>
> /<#>gunzip manual.zip
> gunzip: Invalid extension
> /<#>unzip manual.zip
> unzip: Unsupported compression method 0

The busybox unzip is not fully featured.  You could try the larger one 
from Slackware.  What was used to zip it, Ron?


> I had to locate and download a Windows unzip utility and install it on
> the W98 computer to unzip the file with the long filenames intact.
>
> > > 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
>
> But I did NOT copy the files to the floppy!
>
> I unzipped manual.zip on the floppy with W98, which then showed
> the long filenames of these files while they were resident on the
> floppy --- I thought I made that clear in my previous message.

Maybe BL cannot handle long files names on Windows FAT floppy disks 
either?  Experiment and let us know.

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