I have an old Slackware Linux system installed by an old school Linux guru. This gentleman has since passed on and I am trying to get his program installed on a new system. The program files are on some diskettes that I cannot mount as any supported filesystem. I suspect that he perhaps used compression or some funky drive format. It is unclear. I have taken images of these diskettes and if I do a "strings" on them, I get back lots of interesting stuff so I know that the diskettes are not damaged or corrupted, I just am having a tough time figuring out how to get access to the information.

I figure that I need to do something with "setfdprm" and "dd", etc. to gain access, but I have yet to be successful. Any assistance that anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated. You can download the floppy image files at:

http://www.infonition.com/floppies.shtml

What is the program?

From what I can tell, it is a custom shell script that the gentleman wrote from scratch. I had a chance to see it running on another system. Looks to be a script, batch-like, program, completely file-based. It is not anything that was shrink-wrapped or the like.

Whenever I don't know what a file contains, the first thing I do is:
I did this on your two "disk images" and it turns out that they are GNU tar archives. All you have to do is: