[ale] archiving backups

[JD]

I think you can delete those now. ;)
But I'll never delete my OS/2 stuff!!!!


On 08/07/2014 06:01 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> On 08/07/2014 05:40 PM, JD wrote:
>>> If I had to do this kind of work on Windows I have no cloud how I would do it. :)
>> Perhaps powershell or Strawberry perl? S-Perl feels like normal perl unlike the
>> other options that became popular in the 1990s.
>>
>> There's always cygwin (cough) or you could do like I almost always do and share
>> the file area, mount it under Linux and get work done.
>>
> 
> While archiving I found this on one of my floppy images:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 23936 Aug 24  1995 BANNER.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 17869 Aug 24  1995 CAT.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler   486 Aug 24  1995 CHKLIST.MS
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 19165 Aug 24  1995 CHMOD.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 20029 Aug 24  1995 CMP.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 26781 Aug 24  1995 CP.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 17949 Aug 24  1995 CUT.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 19325 Aug 24  1995 DD.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 27709 Aug 24  1995 DDIR.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 25715 Aug 24  1995 FILEUTIL.PL
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 16573 Aug 24  1995 HEAD.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 27757 Aug 24  1995 LS.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 18125 Aug 24  1995 MKDIR.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 23101 Aug 24  1995 MV.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 17629 Aug 24  1995 PASTE.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler  2013 Aug 24  1995 README.DOS
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 14125 Aug 24  1995 RMDIR.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 19821 Aug 24  1995 RM.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 37645 Aug 24  1995 TAC.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 28989 Aug 24  1995 TOUCH.EXE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler   966 Feb 14  1999 TRANS.TBL
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cfowler cfowler 27709 Aug 24  1995 VDIR.EXE
> 
> When I used those programs I had no clue where they came from.  I just thought
> there were
> better versions of DOS commands.  :)
>