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Instead of unarchiving the diskette images (extensions *.IMG, *.DSK, *.?DK; ? = 1 to 9, A to Z) with LOADDSKF.EXE (located in \DISKIMGS on OS/2 Warp installation CD-ROM) onto HD diskettes, you could unarchive the images onto larger storage media resp. RAM disks with the first two of the following tools:

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Tools for Extraction of Archives
OS Date Files/Source Ver/Bld Lang. Notes
W* 2003-04-04 dskxtr13.zip 1.3 English-US Alan B. Arnett's DSKXTRCT/DSKCOMPR for IBM diskette images
W* 1997-06-18 ftp access diunpack303.zip 3.03 English-US IBM's DIUNPACK for IBM diskette images; cannot handle old LOADDSKF format, in that case use program above
W* 2005-03-18 unz552x2.exe 5.52 English-US Info UnZip
W* 1997-06-02 pkos2250.exe 2.50 English-US PKWare's PKUnZip (old versions of PKUNZIP2.EXE are located in \IBMCOM and \IBMLAN\INSTALL)
W* 1997-07-31 gtar258.zip 2.58 English-US GNU tar
Tools for Easy FixPak Application
OS Date Files/Source Ver/Bld Lang. Notes
W* 2004-04-19 fixpak_assist_20.zip 2.0 English-UK FixPak Assistant by Alex Taylor (supersedes fixpakcd.zip external link); scripts and instructions for installing FixPaks and creating a FixPak CD; includes DSKXTRCT (see above)
W* 2001-07-17 sfix41.zip 4.1 English-US SimplyFix
W* 2000-07-30 fastkick143.zip 1.43 English-US FastKick, uses DIUNPACK (see above)
W* 1999-11-29 qf121.zip 1.21 English-US QuickFix, uses DSKXTRCT (see above)
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