Windows Sig Report
by Don Singleton
Tulsa Computer Society
From the February 1998 issue of the I/O Port Newsletter
At the Windows Sig meeting on December 15 Bruce Carson showed us how to use WinZip to take a file that was larger than one disk and span it across multiple disks. The problem arose when Gordon Leaman indicated why he wanted to see how to do the spanning, because he was trying to take a self- extracting EXE file (of Netscape) and move it from one machine to another. WinZip apparently looks at the contents of an EXE file and when it sees it is a self-extracting file rather than being willing to compress it again (it would not compress much if all), WinZip wants to Extract the files in the self-extracting file and install Netscape. After considerable experimentation we discovered we needed to rename the exe file so it had some other extension, then WinZip would allow us to zip it and span it across multiple floppies.
Bruce also discussed installation problems, where when one looks at the Device Manager and sees the icon for a class of devices has a yellow circle with an exclamation point, and how one should go about deleting the problem device and re-installing it, hopefully with newer drivers.
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