Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 19:44:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT gulliver DOT qc DOT ca>
To: OpenDOS List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: OpenDOS distribution
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Well, RPM is only "theoretically" the way to go.  I have NOT been
> able to get it running on my Slackware system despite several
> mailing list postings to different lists and newsgroups including
> this one, as well as over 12 hours of reading HOWTO's,
> FAQ's, fiddling, downloading, redownloading, re-redownloading,
> posting to lists, ftpsearching, compiling, deleting, recompiling,
> redeleting, redownloading, installing, SIGSEGVing, and finally
> permanently giving up.

I completely agree with you. Thinking more about this, maybe we could do
something similar but more appropriate for DOS systems... Like use ZIP
(using the Info-ZIP libraries), have batch files for pre/post-installation
scripts (or maybe an integrated scripting language (or even better, make 
BASH the default shell for OpenDOS! ;-) ))

Pierre Phaneuf

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