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From: shaunc@gold.gvg.tek.com (Shaun Case)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: FRACINT 16 - IS IT ONLY FOR 386 & BIGGER MACHINES ???
Message-ID: <2588@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 03:03:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: gold.2588
References: <1991Jun20.163648.14438@cbnewsl.att.com>
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Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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In article <1991Jun20.163648.14438@cbnewsl.att.com> rbr@bonnie.ATT.COM writes:
>After capturing all the articles for fraint16.zoo and doing the
>usual uudecode, I started to reconfigure the *.zoo file into
>a couple of ZOO files.  As I only have an XT with 360k floppies
>at home, I usually download large file from the UNIX host to a
>PC over our LAN. The direct connection makes it many times faster
>than a 1200/2400 transfer over the phone lines.  However,
>FRACTINT.EXE results in a 470K file.  How can that fit on a 360k disk?

If you use ARJ to compress it, you can tell it to put it in as many 360k
.ARJ files as is necessary.  When you load it back onto your hard disk,
it will read from the series of .ARJ files.

>(too bad MS_DOS 5 isn't a virtual operating system, it sure would relieve
>a lot of agrivation.)

Truer words were never spoken.

// Shaun

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