Xref: utzoo rec.games.hack:2442 comp.sys.ibm.pc:15075 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!iuvax!silver!creps From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: I have PC NetHack 2.3 working, will post Message-ID: <1673@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> Date: 29 Apr 88 20:22:14 GMT References: <1580@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <2616@c3pe.UUCP> Reply-To: creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) Organization: Indiana Univ Comp Sci Dept Lines: 26 Keywords: **NOT** too big for floppy(ies) In article <2616@c3pe.UUCP> aliza@c3pe.UUCP (Aliza R. Panitz (AlmostLady)) writes: >In article <1580@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> creps@silver (Steve Creps) writes: >>Now it is 373K! That means it is worthless to anyone who has neither a hard >>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>disk nor a 3.5" disk, since floppy disks can only hold 360K. Also, if it gets >Huh??? At work we use 360K floppies to move around 4 Meg data files all >the time... use the DOS BACKUP and RESTORE commands... they will split >a file over as many floppies as necessary. >Unless I'm mistaken, you need to be able to install NET-HACK on a hard drive >to run it... so how you get the file onto your machine shouldn't matter... Like I said, it's worthless to anyone with only 360K floppy drives. Sure, they can store it, but they still can't run it. By the way, PKARC will also get the size of the file down to fit on a floppy, but you can't run it in that format either, and doing an "arc r nethack" stills needs disk space to create a temporary file. Previous versions could be run from a system with only floppy drives. This version cannot because the runfile is bigger than 360K. Now if someone wants to write a multi-volume loader program... - - - - - - - - - - Steve Creps, Indiana University, Bloomington, "home of the Hoosiers" creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (192.12.206.2) {pur-ee,ihnp4!inuxc,rutgers,pyramid}!iuvax!silver!creps creps@iubacs.bitnet (forwarded) "To dream... the unlintable dream..."