Hell, you can get most of the good stuff on a 360K
disk if you try hard
enough. One of my favorite tricks is to use ARK (K. Heidenstrom), which
is a .COM archiver and execution stub, to stick all the .COM files I
need into a single .EXE, then compress the .EXE with pklite or lzexe or
similar.
format.com,
fdisk.com, and
sys.com all go in there, as do a
4KB editor and other utils.
Many of the files can be easily compressed without archiving using LZEXE or
Yes, but you gain more space by putting them all into a single archive
and compressing the entire thing; that way it's not constantly
restarting the dictionary for each file.
For my bootable/recovery disks etc. I wrote a little utility that scans for a RAMdisk,
and when it finds it, it unpacks from the floppy to the RAMdrive and switches over
to it - lets me put lots of stuff on one floppy, and gives me nice fast operation once
it's up and running without having to touch the hard drive. It also has a script
function
which lets me enter things like network card type, address, interrupt etc. and control
what gets unpacked, and auto-updates certain files as required.
I can pass it along if anyone wants it - might take be a little while to throw together a
TXT describing how to use it however...
Dave
has CD drivers, Networking, Ghost and tons of other useful recovery utilities.
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