X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f X-Recipient: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: "Kevin Klement" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: expand.exe Message-ID: Date: Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 14:44:09 -500 X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29) In-Reply-To: X-Fido-From: Kevin Klement, 1:342/77 X-Fido-To: Mike Tripp 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: 98443506.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 12:21:10 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: 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 ... Does a radioactive cat have 18 half-lives?