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From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: G(un)zip alternatives (was Overclocking, Linux issues)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:36:35 +1000
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See below ...

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rob McGee [SMTP:i812 AT iname DOT com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 25 October 2000 14:20
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Overclocking, Linux issues: was Re: About Micro$quash...
> 
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> I recommend "mc", the Midnight Commander, a visual file manager which is
> a good aid for learning your way around. (With current versions of
> ZipSlack you have to install ap1/mc.tgz and d1/ncurses.tgz first.)
> 
> > [snip]
> > requirements are for his latest version, but you must have at least a
> 386sx
> > and 2MB RAM to run Linux. Most likely his latest version requires 4MB
> RAM
> > and 8 MB for x-windows, unless something has changed. This has been the
> > requirements need for Slackware distribution for many years. But I would
> > highly recommend 16MB and to get by without any swapfile or swap
> partiton
> > 32MB should do it for a single computer. You can get by with 24MB, but
> one
> 
> You can run on 4MB, but it's painful. It's very difficult to *install*
> on only 4MB, but that's not an issue with a DOS- or Windows-based setup.
> (ZipSlack requires a 32-bit unzip utility such as WinZip. I don't know
> if it can be done in DOS, even DPMI.)
> 
	[da Silva, Joe]  

	On a related side-issue, what is a good program to handle (eg.
decompress),
	in DOS, Unix-ish files like "*.tar.gz" and "*.tar.z" ... ?   I have
tried 'gunzip'
	and some un-tar thing whose name escapes me, but they are
user-vicious
	(particularly gzip/gunzip) ...