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From: horn@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Mark Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: MGR? and installable floppies?
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Date: 19 Feb 90 15:28:56 GMT
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In article <15903@cs.yale.edu> yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin) writes:
>Well, sounds like it'd be easier to port Mgr...

While we're on the subject . . . has anyone actually ported mgr to the Unix PC,
yet?  How easy/hard was it?  Will you post patches for the standard dist?

I have another Q.  What is the process for making installable floppies?  I have
Interrnet access so it was rather easy for me to get the recent FIXDISK.  A
friend of mine doesn't have internet access so it's hard for him to get that
self same FIXDISK.

Now when I installed the FIXDISK, it prompted me if I wanted to make a floppy
backup of the software I was installing.  I of course responded 'y<cr>'  It
of course proceeded to ignore me.  I tried this with 3 or 4 different 
afirmative responses and each time it proceded with the installation without
making a floppy backup.  

Anyway, I've figured out how to get the stuff unpacked, actually I cheat,
I just stop the installation process after everything is unpacked what is 
the correct way to do this?  So the process that goes into making and 
unpacking an installable floppie is what I'm interested in.

Anyhelp is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
- sparkie