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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Software not loading
To: Mark Tukman <tukman@acpub.duke.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 00:43:12 +0000 ()
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In-Reply-To: <31E584B7.492B@acpub.duke.edu> from "Mark Tukman" at Jul 11, 96 06:48:23 pm
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> 
> I have just installed free bsd on my pc.  At the end of the 
> installation, when given the opportunity to pick some software 
> packages, I end up with a message that the software can't be found.  I 
> have an Atapi CD-Rom, so I am installing from my Dos partition.  

This is a problem with MSDOS's stupid restrictions on file names.  The
install program is looking for names like

kringemaker-1.6.alpha.tar.gz

which DOS has completely garbled.  You can fix this by truncating 
them yourself into a more sensible format before installing; the 
trick is to have an eight-letter name followed by '.tgz', eg
something like

kringema.tgz

for the above program.