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From: toon@vdpas.hobby.nl (Toon van der Pas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: OS Boot Select 1.32 - yet another boot menu program
Message-ID: <1992Jul31.234207.16502@vdpas.hobby.nl>
Date: 31 Jul 92 23:42:07 GMT
References: <Y4K52MP@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> <1992Jul30.165820.2328@tfs.com>
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julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:

>In article <Y4K52MP@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> wolfaajj@w250zrzzrz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) writes:
>>
>>OS Boot Select is a replacement of the ordinary master boot
>>program. It provides a customizable boot menu and customizable

[...etc...ect...]

>Sounds great, but how about something that we non DOS people can use?
>could you post a UUENCODED version? What is LHA?
>It looks like uuencode, but uudecode won't touch it.

It actually IS uuencoded.
I uudecoded it without any problems.

>>
>>-- Thomas
>>
>>
>>This is a self-extracting LHA archiv for DOS.
>>------------------------CUT HERE-----------------------------
>>begin 640 os-bs132.exe
>>M35J9 00    "   0___P_P !     ?#_'         #K>2  3$A!)W,@4T98

And as you can read it is a self-extracting file.
The only thing you need to do is run it on an MSDOS machine.
And you can find that type of machine everywhere.
By the way, I ran it under vpix.

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