CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

WC>> Well I've infozip zip and unzip here, it was in /usr/bin in 
WC>> 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 
RJT> differently based on what name they were invoked with. The dos 
RJT> version I have on this box is supposed to act the same way, but 
RJT> unfortunately dos doesn't give me the option of making links, so I 
RJT> have two copies, with different names, wasting a whole 63k or so 
RJT> of disk space... :-)

CA> Depending on what version of DOS you are using you can use CED.COM 
CA> to 'alias' multiple command line arguments using alias'd 'commands' 
CA> from the CLI.

Never heard of it,  and it doesn't look like a whole 63k of disk space is
gonna make it worth messing with.

CA> 4DOS can also do this.

In spite of the many enthusiasts I've never installed that package,  either.

CA> Newer versions of DOS include DOSKEY.COM which can alias commands 
CA> but I'm not sure it can store them and then restore the alias's 
CA> after a reboot? CED.COM can store them and restore them at each
CA> boot of the machine to DOS. (Yes, CED.COM _is_ available from my
CA> website)

CA> :-)

I'm not sure how the heck the program works,  as dos doesn't provide a
running program with what under linux and elsewhere would be argc[0],  the
name it was invoked under.

FWIW,  the version here is 6.2,  I never saw any point to moving to 6.22
since that version release was a result of the Stac lawsuit and the changes
are minimal.

RJT>  

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 
RJT> would know. That's one of the reasons I went to ext3 on my 
RJT> partitions here when I had some flaky power, things were getting 
RJT> too tedious waiting for those filesystem checks when it 
RJT> returned... 

CA> I took the time to read up on journaling filesystems and have
CA> forgotten most of what I read. :-\ 

Where did you find the info?  I know that there are probably specific sites
for each variant,  but I'm more interested in how they compare with each
other.  I know that some of them will back up only metadata,  while others
do more.  I've got jfs,  reiserfs,  and xfs (?) here,  should I decide that
I want to play with them.  Not that this seems likely at this point.

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