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It's sort of a Catch-22 situation. You can't read the
README.TXT file until you unzip it and if you unzip it, it erases your
directory structure! I don't blame the zip file itself. The
lack of installation instructions at the Quotemonster page where I got
it isn't completely to blame. Apparently,
there's a bug in the Norton Utilities v2.0 unzip feature.
If there's over 512 files in the ZIP file and you don't use the directory
switch, which I didn't notice until last night, it just clears everything
right out. LOL
Well, I hooked up my old hard drive as slave. Using PartitionMagic
I deleted the empty partition and copied from the old hard drive to the
new. There are other little steps, such as hiding the old HDD partitions
which I won't get into. After rebooting, I downloaded the Quotes-Plus2
data I needed, from 10/07/98 no less, and allowed the database to update.
Total time for downloading and updating:
2 hours 35 minutes! After this fiasco,
I am going to use the empty space on my 6.4 GB HDD as backup space.
Because I use DriveSpace3, it should be easy to create a 2 GB FAT partition
and 5 volumes in it.
Daniel.
UG wrote:
Daniel Martinez writes:
> Jim, there are no instructions on your web page for installing
> PERL....
Not to add insult to injury, but in that very archive, in one of the
*four* files in the root level, the README states quite clearly:
INSTALLATION
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To install:
* Extract the archive so that the directory structure of
the
files is preserved.
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