Floppy edition of IE 5.01 for Windows 3.11

[Keyser]

I know, I know... This may be an odd request, but I'm trying to find a floppy distribution (floppy images) of Internet Explorer 5.01 for Windows 3.11. Anyone?

P.S. I'm pretty sure this can't be considered warez, but if you think it is, please ignore it.

[MaverickTse]

Can you use Netscape instead?
http://sillydog.org/narchive/full123.php

[newpball]

P.S. I'm pretty sure this can't be considered warez, but if you think it is, please ignore it.

At this stage I think it is more a liability than a source of profit for Microsoft.

[qz3fwd]

Nice pre April Fools joke....

[lingyi]

The full 8.87MB is avaiable here: http://www.oldapps.com/internet_explorer.php?old_internet_explorer=3 . Note that this is for Win 3.11 and one of the posters on the page states he/she was able to install it on an actual Win 3.1 installation.

I don't know if IE 5.01 was ever distributed on floppies as it was introduced with Win 95 which as AFAIK was only available on CD-ROM.

If you really need it on floppies, you can split it with something like HJSplit. I don't think there was an end user utility that allowed use of the special compression technique Microsoft used for their floppy distributions.

[lingyi]

Another possibility is if you're a Microsoft TechNet subscriber it may be available there. I had a subscription years ago and at that time they had every OS back to MS-DOS 6.1 (as floppy disk images). There were also Service Packs and possibly add-ons / upgrades like IE 5.01

[Keyser]

Thank you all. It's no joke...

I don't know if IE 5.01 was ever distributed on floppies as it was introduced with Win 95 which as AFAIK was only available on CD-ROM.

You may be right, it may never have been distributed on floppies. As for Windows 95, yes there was a floppy distribution. Even Windows 98 was distributed on floppies.

[El Heggunte]

For the uninformed:

When IE 5 was released, Windows 95 already was OLD

I don't think there was an end user utility that allowed use of the special compression technique Microsoft used for their floppy distributions.

There exist both makecab.exe and the less-old version of cabarc.exe

[C:\]
=>makecab
Microsoft (R) Cabinet Maker - Version 5.1.2600.5512
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved..

MAKECAB [/V[n]] [/D var=value ...] [/L dir] source [destination]
MAKECAB [/V[n]] [/D var=value ...] /F directive_file [...]

  source         File to compress.
  destination    File name to give compressed file.  If omitted, the
                 last character of the source file name is replaced
                 with an underscore (_) and used as the destination.
  /F directives  A file with MakeCAB directives (may be repeated).
  /D var=value   Defines variable with specified value.
  /L dir         Location to place destination (default is current directory).
  /V[n]          Verbosity level (1..3).

[C:\]
=>in2cab

Microsoft (R) Cabinet Tool - Version 5.1.2600.0
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved..

Usage: IN2CAB [options] command cabfile [@list] [files] [dest_dir]

Commands:
   L   List contents of cabinet (e.g. in2cab l test.cab)
   N   Create new cabinet (e.g. in2cab n test.cab *.c app.mak *.h)
   X   Extract file(s) from cabinet (e.g. in2cab x test.cab foo*.c)

Options:
  -c   Confirm files to be operated on
  -o   When extracting, overwrite without asking for confirmation
  -m   Set compression type [LZX:<15..21>|MSZIP|NONE], (default is MSZIP)
  -p   Preserve path names (absolute paths not allowed)
  -P   Strip specified prefix from files when added
  -r   Recurse into subdirectories when adding files (see -p also)
  -s   Reserve space in cabinet for signing (e.g. -s 6144 reserves 6K bytes)
  -i   Set cabinet set ID when creating cabinets (default is 0)
  -d   Set diskette size (default is no limit/single CAB)

Notes
-----
When creating a cabinet, the plus sign (+) may be used as a filename
to force a folder boundary; e.g. in2cab n test.cab *.c test.h + *.bmp

When extracting files to disk, the <dest_dir>, if provided, must end in
a backslash; e.g. in2cab x test.cab bar*.cpp *.h d:\test\

The -P (strip prefix) option can be used to strip out path information
e.g. in2cab -r -p -P myproj\ a test.cab myproj\balloon\*.*
The -P option can be used multiple times to strip out multiple paths

When creating cabinet sets using -d, the cabinet name should contain
a single '*' character where the cabinet number will be inserted.

[qz3fwd]

I am pretty sure I have it, but on punch cards not floppies.
Maybe you can use them and I will send them to you for only postage & handling.

[Keyser]

I am pretty sure I have it, but on punch cards not floppies.

Are you sure it's not carved in stone?