10 Sep
2004
10 Sep
'04
12:39 a.m.
Does anyone know if there's a decompression util for Linux that can
handle MSDOS 6.22 compressed files? I need a decompressed version of
emm386.ex_ ...
The only one I've found (so far) is called msexpand - but (helpfully) it
supports every version of MSDOS ever apart from 6.22 :-(
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... :-)
If it comes to it I can dig my old 486 laptop out of storage as I think
that wound up with 6.22 on it - just a pain though!
ta
Jules
10 Sep
10 Sep
1:24 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:39:29PM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
Does anyone know if there's a decompression util
for Linux that can
handle MSDOS 6.22 compressed files? I need a decompressed version of
emm386.ex_ ...
The only one I've found (so far) is called msexpand - but (helpfully) it
supports every version of MSDOS ever apart from 6.22 :-(
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... :-)
Would it work to use FreeDOS and DOSEMU? I think you can even get images
that are pre-installed with FreeDOS so you won't need to go through the
installation process.
Dan
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10:37 a.m.
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
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... :-)
Yes, you can!
You can boot 6.x from floppy, even though the INSTALL
dementedly insists on installing onto C: -
MICROS~1 response to those who wanted 6.00 on a different drive
(my C: was a 3", D: was 3.25", and my harddrive was E:)
was "install it on C: and then COPY it to another disk
by FORMAT x: /S and then copy the files".
Once you have a bootable 6.22 floppy, you have two fairly
straightforward ways to do it.
1) give the command to expand as if you had a floppy in B:
DOS will then expand to the phantom B: drive, by asking you
to put the B: disk into drive A:, then the A: disk in drive A:,
then the B: disk in drive A:, then the A: disk in drive A:,
then the B: disk in drive A:, then the A: disk in drive A:,
etc.
This would be a VERY good time to write protect the disk that
you are not going to write to!
2) setup a RAMDISK. You can boot from a floppy with the
RAMDISK software invoked in CONFIG.SYS Then you can use
RAM as an additional drive, and do your work in it.
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