-=> Quoting Lawrence R. Mintz to Bob Wright, [16 Oct 99  22:10:00] <=-

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

 LRM> You don't need to create the numerous floppy disks if you use a
 LRM> program such as diunpack which unpacks the .dk* files into files on
 LRM> your hard disk.  Diunpack can be found in fastk***.zip.   The last
 LRM> version I had was fastk139, but there should be versions for cs140 and
 LRM> cs141 as well.

Nor do you need any of that stuff you described. The simplest solution
BY FAR, is to use the RSU (Remote Software Update) capability/facility
built into Warp/supplied by IBM. I refer to:

http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/softupd.html#warp34


It only requires you to maintain current copies of a couple of files
that it needs to be current on your system for it to do its magic. You
just go there and find the fixpak of your choice, a couple of screens
down in a matrix of countries vs versions. Find your language, move to
the right and find your preferred version # (currently 42 or 12) and on
that line, click on RSU. Then just follow the prompts which are all
straight forward. If this is your first time, you might want to do a
backup first. I have used this facility from FP3 thru FP12, and wouldn't
think of recommending any other way (except to SM) {^; The remote
facility will look at your HD and determine if you need to update the
couple files mentioned above. If you need them, it will tell you and
pause while you replace them, then you resume it and it creates an empty
dir on your x:\ drive called \$rsutmp$ and proceeds to download all the
files needed (start this late at night/early morning, then go to bed).
When all the files are there, it unzips them all and deletes each zip
after it unzips. Then it gives you a couple of choices on a windowed
screen, the most important of which is the first one, which requires you
to select the system (ie, double click on the long string in that
window, so that it is now 'selected', enabling you to tell it to Proceed
(or Continue or Install). It first creates a backup of every file to be
replaced, then continues with the installation of all the files, save
the ones it earmarks for deferred installation (during the reboot) forget
the terminology. }^: When all of that is done, it asks you if you want
it to clean up? If Yes, it deletes all of the installation files/dirs
leaving you just like you were except for the newly installed files and
the backed up set from your prior FixPak, then tells you to reboot.
Following that you are finished, and needed nothing that wasn't
furnished by the RSU, and you didn't need to know any arcane procedures
or special instructions, etc.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, I wouldn't consider any other
method for these installations, and most of the time, I skip the backup
(I rarely am without a somewhat recent one. {^; Good luck, and Good
Modeming!  /\oo/\

BTW, I forgot to mention that after you start the dnld and go to bed,
when you return, you just pick up where you left off. You do this by
restarting it, and it sees the \$rsutmp$ dir, determines where you left
off and picks up right from there, without missing a beat.

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