Okay.  I borrowed a Windows 95 box for an hour and got wpy installed for DOS.

Here's what I did:

I started with a copy of:
	ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/src/lib1.4.tar.gz (as tar14.tgz)
	ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/wpy/pyth_dos.zip
	ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/tar320g.zip
	http://incolor.inetnebr.com/jepler/quake/qcustom1.zip

I uncompressed pyth_dos.zip and tar320g.zip in C:\PYTHON using my favorite
unzip program.  I then used the command
	tar xvf lib14.tgz
which created a 'lib' directory in c:\python\

I put the following in autoexec.bat:
	set pythonpath=c:\python\lib;c:\python\lib\dos_8x3;c:\python\lib\win
and then executed the command at the prompt as well.

I uncompressed qcustom1.zip from c:\, creating the qcustom directory:
	pkunzip -d qcustom1.zip

then I tested things:
	cd qcustom
	\python\pyth_dos qcustom.py -r
.. and it didn't work.  I fixed my python source, which assumed
os.listdir() would give lowercase names.  The change was:

def listdir(where='.', all=0):
    names = os.listdir(where)
    files = []
    dirs = []
    for l in names:
        l=os.path.normcase(l)    # insert this line
        if l[0]=='.' and not all: continue
        if (where!='.'): l=os.path.join(where, l)
        if os.path.isdir(l): dirs.append(l)
        else: files.append(l)
    return files, dirs                                                         

Now, QuakeCustom reaches the point where it tries (and fails) to invoke
qcc.

I will be replacing qcustom1.zip's qcustom.py with a fixed one very soon,
but I encourage you to make the change yourself and save the download.

Jeff