alan littleford <alan@littleford.net> writes:
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:31:53 -0700
>
> I had the same problem which I solved -- winzip doesn't seem to bother
> extracting files of 0 bytes in length -- if you have a look inside the
> archive you'll see that each 'DiskN' subdirectory has a diskid file of
> length 0 bytes (I forget the exact name, and I don't have it to hand --
> but you'll see it). So its a pain but just create the approriate files by
> hand in the appropriate directory and all will be, as they say, hunky
> dory.
>
> I was trying some performance timings with the Windows version and sadly
> systime() always seems to return 0 ...
I hope someone who understands PCs will find a way to fix that. I am
sure there are other problems.
> Tnx for the shift to open source -- I first saw Pop about 25 years ago
> running under the George OS on an ICL machine -- loved it .. tastes great,
> less filling ..
>
> Tnx
> Alan Littleford
I wonder if someone can explain, for the less experienced, how to do
what Alan described
So its a pain but just create the approriate files by hand in
the appropriate directory
As a non-PC user it occurs to me that this might mean simply create
a new directory containing directories disk1...disk10, then one at
a time move the contents extracted by Winzip to the appropriate
disk.
I.e. these files:
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:12 1996 DISK1/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 508065 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK1/POP155.1
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 44928 Sep 19 16:41 1996 DISK1/SETUP.EXE
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 5832 Nov 18 14:33 1996 DISK1/SETUP.INS
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 53571 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK1/SETUP.PKG
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 298496 Aug 16 13:49 1996 DISK1/UNINST.EXE
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 319868 Sep 19 14:39 1996 DISK1/_INST32I.EX_
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 8192 Sep 7 20:22 1995 DISK1/_ISDEL.EXE
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 6112 Aug 26 18:19 1996 DISK1/_SETUP.DLL
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 149520 Sep 19 17:03 1996 DISK1/_SETUP.LIB
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:13 1996 DISK10/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1261592 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK10/POP155.10
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:13 1996 DISK2/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1401504 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK2/POP155.2
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:13 1996 DISK3/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1399563 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK3/POP155.3
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:13 1996 DISK4/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1401241 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK4/POP155.4
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:13 1996 DISK5/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1402436 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK5/POP155.5
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:13 1996 DISK6/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1399227 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK6/POP155.6
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:13 1996 DISK7/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1401938 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK7/POP155.7
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:12 1996 DISK8/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1401400 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK8/POP155.8
drwxr-sr-x 1807/70 0 Nov 18 15:12 1996 DISK9/
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 1401818 Nov 18 14:32 1996 DISK9/POP155.9
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 30338 Jul 18 18:33 1999 INSTALL.TXT
-rw-r--r-- 1807/70 2850 Nov 18 15:17 1996 README
Would it help Windows users if I simply create a subdirectory in the
ftp directory containing each of disk1 - disk10 already as above?
Aaron
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