version of MSDOS 6.22 expand.exe for Linux? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Sep 2004

On Sep 10 2004, 12:39, Jules Richardson wrote:
...
  Does anyone know if there's a decompression util
for Linux that can
 handle MSDOS 6.22 compressed files? [ ... ]
...
  Unfortunately I'm surrounded by Linux machines
right now and nothing
 with a hard disk onto which I can install DOS - and I don't think I can
...
  boot DOS 6.22 from floppies and tell expand to
decompress a file into
 memory, let me change floppies to the one I want the expanded version
 on, and then write it out... :-) 
I know you've got it sorted now, but if it ever happens again, remember
that on a single-floppy machine, DOS will prompt you to change the disk
in the floppy drive if you refer to it as B: instead of A: (and then
prompt you to change back when appropriate).

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York