[ale] archiving backups

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Thu Aug 7 18:01:05 EDT 2014


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.  :)

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