Hello Kevin!

28 Oct 09 14:44, Kevin Klement wrote to Mike Tripp:

 KK> Thats exactly what I did, in my OEM version there is a file called
 KK> "packing.lst" that has all the compressed uncompressed
file names, I
 KK> edited that with "expand.exe" and made a batch out of it,
then a batch
 KK> file with "del.exe" to kill the compressed files. Worked great!

Been there and done that, too...but couldn't suggest it without a handy
reference to verify if PACKING.LST was to be found in 6.22.  In the process
of searching, I discovered my current running install is still 6.20, and
that I would have to remake the 6.22 floppies to check (which is probably
also why I never bothered with 6.20->6.22 after a reinstall)...

Also, I don't recall if the install even transfers PACKING.LST to the DOS
dir... Did it?

 >> Hopefully this is an academic exercise, or are you still
 >> trying to get your installation working?

 KK> I expanded everything weeks ago :)

Expected as much, but was starting to worry about you.

 KK> Bought a OEM version from ebay for $40.00 too, it was easyer just
 KK> copying the files from the floppies to the MS-DOS box.

Interesting...I thought OEM-logo had reverted back to Microsoft-logo only
again by 6.22.  It's really hard to remember as it was an interesting time
in MS history.  At the transition point between DOS and Windows, they did a
lot of things like they'd never done it before (or since).  Being at Dell
and tinkering with additional pre-release versions, I also was exposed to
quite a few more versions that never saw the light-of-day in release.

And then something happened in the 80's that seems to have affected my
recall abilities for that specific decade...but I can't remember
what.

.\\ike

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