X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f X-Recipient: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: "Mike Tripp" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: expand.exe Message-ID: Date: Friday, 30 Oct 2009 07:33:10 -500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) In-Reply-To: X-Fido-From: Mike Tripp, 1:382/61 X-Fido-To: Kevin Klement MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Declude-Sender: ccoky AT iglou DOT com [67.131.57.16] X-Declude-Spoolname: 98443501.eml X-Declude-RefID: X-Note: Please send abuse reports to abuse AT fewpb DOT net X-Declude-Note: Scanned by Declude 4.4.0 "http://www.declude.com/x-note.htm" X-Declude-Scan: Outgoing Score [6] at 12:21:07 on 02 Jan 2010 X-Declude-Tests: BADHEADERS [8], DYNHELO [2] X-Country-Chain: UNITED STATES->destination X-Declude-Code: 8010000e X-Declude-Recipcount: 1 Organization: The Electric and Water Plant Board of the City of Frankfort Kentucky X-Identity: 67.131.57.16 | | delorie.com Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Originally to: Kevin Klement Hello Kevin! 28 Oct 09 14:44, Kevin Klement wrote to Mike Tripp: KK> Thats exactly what I did, in my OEM version there is a file called KK> "packing.lst" that has all the compressed uncompressed file names, I KK> edited that with "expand.exe" and made a batch out of it, then a batch KK> file with "del.exe" to kill the compressed files. Worked great! Been there and done that, too...but couldn't suggest it without a handy reference to verify if PACKING.LST was to be found in 6.22. In the process of searching, I discovered my current running install is still 6.20, and that I would have to remake the 6.22 floppies to check (which is probably also why I never bothered with 6.20->6.22 after a reinstall)... Also, I don't recall if the install even transfers PACKING.LST to the DOS dir... Did it? >> Hopefully this is an academic exercise, or are you still >> trying to get your installation working? KK> I expanded everything weeks ago :) Expected as much, but was starting to worry about you. KK> Bought a OEM version from ebay for $40.00 too, it was easyer just KK> copying the files from the floppies to the MS-DOS box. Interesting...I thought OEM-logo had reverted back to Microsoft-logo only again by 6.22. It's really hard to remember as it was an interesting time in MS history. At the transition point between DOS and Windows, they did a lot of things like they'd never done it before (or since). Being at Dell and tinkering with additional pre-release versions, I also was exposed to quite a few more versions that never saw the light-of-day in release. And then something happened in the 80's that seems to have affected my recall abilities for that specific decade...but I can't remember what. .\\ike