From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 06:53:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA23035 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 06:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from uswat.advtech.uswest.com (uswat.advtech.uswest.com [130.13.16.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA23025 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 06:53:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com ([151.116.23.138]) by uswat.advtech.uswest.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA10799 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 07:53:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from westhub (westhub.mnet.uswest.com [148.156.21.6]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA05483 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:01:11 -0700 (MST) Received: by westhub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Message-Id: Date: 28 Dec 1995 20:47:52 -0700 From: "Owen Newnan" Subject: HTML & ATAPI part 3 To: "questions about FreeBSD" X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP-QM 3.0.2 GM Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Subject: Time:8:40 PM OFFICE MEMO HTML & ATAPI part 3 Date:12/28/95 Thanks for the tip on lynx, which is now part of my plan. I still have a catch 22: need the documentation to get the drive working, but need the drive to install the package to read the documentation. Since I have no direct internet connection, I can't download the package to FreeBSD. My only option presently is to stage it from DOS. But that results in different file naming from what the package makefiles expect. I conclude from the lack of advice on ATAPI that I have an unsupported device. So I need a work around installing packages by way of DOS. Needed is a utility that takes a package subtree copied over from DOS and applies the tables, restoring the long file names. Does such a thing exist? Otherwise, I'll write one. Thanks. Cheers!