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The last release of
Slackware that contained ZipSlack was Slackware 11.0. Slackware 12.0 did not contain a ZipSlack setup within its distribution, although this change was not mentioned in its release announcement. The most likely cause of this is the lack of UMSDOS support in Linux 2.6, as support
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Installing ZipSlack required obtaining the archive and unzipping it to the place where the user wished to install it. Unlike some other programs at the time, ZipSlack did not require for the user to reconfigure existing
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