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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Manual for Sylpheed
  • Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:12:49 +0000 (UTC)

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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. / \ from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
. \_,-*_/ "Queen City of The South" 34:55 S 138:36 E
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