-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 WC> Well I've infozip zip and unzip here, it was in /usr/bin
 WC> in Knoppix.

 RJT> If you look,  you'll probably see that one is a link to the other.
 RJT> Nifty trick,  that where some unix-type programs can act differently
 RJT> based on what name they were invoked with.  The dos version I have on
 RJT> this box is supposed to act the same way,  but unfortunately dos
 RJT> doesn't give me the option of making links,  so I have two copies,
 RJT> with different names,  wasting a whole 63k or so of disk space...
 RJT> :-)

Very nice indeed.

 WC> Don't think I'll be buying that partition imaging program either
 WC> as the one that comes with Knoppix does FAT 16, 32, ext2fs but
 WC> unfortunately not ext3fs.

 RJT> Not much difference there -- you can go from ext3 to ext2 and back
 RJT> again without much trouble.  Just involves something to do with the
 RJT> journal file.  I forget the details but someone in the linux echo would
 RJT> know.  That's one of the reasons I went to ext3 on my partitions here
 RJT> when I had some flaky power, things were getting too tedious waiting
 RJT> for those filesystem checks when it returned...

 It's really no problem here either way the way I finally set it up.
 Set the /home directory down in /hda2 ext2fs along with the system
 settings so most everything in Knoppix sits in the much larger
 ext3fs.
 A complete crash of the file system with an imaged backup
 would just mean reintalling the CD and decompressing the image
 back to /hda2

 WC> Also found a Linux BBS that's freeware.

 RJT> Which one is that?

Sorry don't recollect now but ran into it on search keywords such as
Linux, Debian, QWK, zmodem.
I did attempt to download it and that's when I
discovered my /home directory only existed in RAM so in a
few seconds I rectified that problem.
 
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