On Wed, 28 May 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 12:23 PM 5/28/2003 -0700, glenn greenfield wrote:
> [...]
> >My router is AT form factor and I have no keyboard for it. Not a problem
> >as I just boot the Bering disk on another system(of course I can't ssh in
> >until I get Bering working). Is it possible to mount and edit the floppy
> >directly on my Debian box or is booting it the only way to edit
> >it? Thanks again.
>
> Depends on what you want to edit. The *.lrp (package) files are just .tgz
> files in disguise, though as I recall they do need to -9 flag on gzip when
> you recompress them after editing. So you should be able to un'tar, edit,
> and re'tar them fairly easily on another Linux host (or even a suitably
> equipped Windows host), as long as its kernel can mount an msdos filesystem
> and a 1680 MB disk.
Careful, Ray... "suitably equipped" doesn't warn a newbie about
newline-adaptable editors. Also, most of the WinZip clones that can read
.tar.gz don't re-create them with -9 compression. Nor are the
difficulties with oversized floppies in various versions of Windows
self-evident.
A fairly complete installation of Cygwin may alleviate these problems in
many cases (gzip, vi, tar), but I gave up using typical Windows tools in
conjunction with LEAF a long time ago to avoid the pain.
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