version of MSDOS 6.22 expand.exe for Linux?

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.u-net.com
Fri Sep 10 13:53:02 CDT 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).

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York



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