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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Install OS/2 from driver B
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.010317.3203@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 01:03:17 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.082731.14298@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> <1992Nov13.132928.15487@sura.net>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Nov13.132928.15487@sura.net> vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
- >> I want to install OS/2 from driver B. It's said on FAQ that I can get a
- >> free software to do it. Where is it???
- >On hobbes, the file is called "instb.zip" -- getting this file will
- >result in FRUSTRATION! Some fool archived it with the zip utility that
- >runs under OS/2; it CAN NOT be unzipped with the official DOS pkunzip
- >release -- you must already have OS/2 running to unzip it. A real
- >catch 22.
-
- No, that is not correct. Info-Zip's UnZip 5.0 is available in
- versions for all major platforms, including DOS. Any DOS archive site
- should have Info-Zip's UnZip 5.0.
-
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