Bob Wright wrote in a message to Linda Proulx:

 BW> 2. Fixpak 40 requires 20 floppies.  These are compressed disk 
 BW> images, requiring a special program to copy them from your hard 
 BW> drive to the floppies.  The program (called loaddskf) will run 
 BW> in both OS/2 and DOS.  Your friend should probably use the 
 BW> program to create the floppies once they're downloaded.

I don't know what it's going to take for her to get zip disk support,  but it
would sure seem to me like it'd be a lot easier as far as getting those files
on to her system.

 BW> 3.  All fixpaks also require a special utility to control their 
 BW> operation.  The latest one is called cs_141.exe and can be 
 BW> found at the same location as the fixpaks.

I'd have to look to be sure,  but I think what I ended up using was 140,
rather than 141.  The nice thing about it is that it'll work directly with the 
files involved and you don't need to do anything with floppies at all.



 BW> 5.  Other utilities...
 BW>         Configinfo (it's old but still has a lot of value)
 BW>         Configmaint (more uptodate, slightly different
 BW> operation)         Inibrowser
 BW>         Web Explorer to start
 BW>         Netscape as soon as it's practical (2.02 or 4.61 - I'm 
 BW> using both, since 4.61 can be a bit flaky on downloads)

I have 2.02 here.  Am I correct in assuming that the 4.xx numbers refer to
_communicator_ rather than _navigator_?  If so,  what's the advantage of going 
to it?

 BW>         FTP (I have tried both Emtec and ftpbrowser 1.71, this 
 BW> is a toss-up) 

I grabbed a bunch of ftp stuff out of the files section here to try.  Emtec
was the first,  and I never did get around to trying out any of the others for 
the short time I had some 'net access a while back.  There were a few things
about the way it worked that I didn't care for,  and then it started nagging
me worse,  to the point where I up and deleted the whole silly thing.  I don't 
care what some authors think,  30 days and then quit is not necessarily a
valid assumption,  especially if your evaluation of a product is only
intermittent and you've got other things going on in your life.

 BW>         Infozip's ZIP and UNZIP clones

I have these,  and also the PKware product for OS/2.  Is there any particular
advantage to going with the Infozip products?  Aside from the fact that
they're freeware,  that is...

 BW>         You might want to get a graphical ZIP file viewer. 
 BW> There are quite a few of these.. I personally use RPF 
 BW> ZIPCONTROL, although I've tried others along the way.

What does that do for you?

 BW> A lot of other things (as well as some of the suggestions
 BW> above) will depend on just how you use your OS/2 setup ...

Yep,  ain't that always the case?  :-)

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