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Originally to: Mike Tripp

Hi Mike,

Wednesday October 28 2009 07:48, Mike Tripp wrote to Kevin Klement:

 > You need a fancier command processor or batch util to split
 > fully qualified names into their component parts for this
 > exercise...and without a bootable version of the DOS

Yep..

 > When I crossed this bridge in the day, I redirected "DIR
 > *.??_" to a text file and used QEdit to duplicate the
 > filename list, insert "EXPAND" at the beginning, and modify
 > the extension for the target filename to make a BAT. Older

Thats exactly what I did, in my OEM version there is a file called 
"packing.lst" that has all the compressed uncompressed file names, I edited 
that with "expand.exe" and made a batch out of it, then a batch file with 
"del.exe" to kill the compressed files. Worked great!

 > Hopefully this is an academic exercise, or are you still
 > trying to get your installation working?

I expanded everything weeks ago :)

Bought a OEM version from ebay for $40.00 too, it was easyer just copying the 
files from the floppies to the MS-DOS box.

        Kevin
        klement AT gypsy-designs DOT com

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