Glenn, I spent hours last night doing some stuff, and this morning[afternoon] I was sitting here trying to figure out just how I managed to get so side tracked into it. <G> Your message answered *that* question: On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 19:52:56 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > For an even 'higher educated' guess... > I am almost certain that the 'seperate partition' install will look like > this to DOS: > ---directory listing of the demo diskette--- > Volume in drive A does not have a label > Directory of A:\ > bps�j�n T�" <DIR> 7-00-41 9:16a > 1 File(s) 17408 bytes free > System files exist I had been crawling through random diskettes, trying to make certain that what was on each was no longer required, that there were no bad sectors, etc. Among them was my old F-Prot bootable portable Virus Killer diskette. I realized it was time to update it. Shortly thereafter I realized I *couldn't* update it, because the files necessary would no longer fit on a single FD. So off to complex.is to see what they had to say. None of the FAQs or tec notes touches on the problem. I was getting ready to send a letter requesting help when I saw there was a new version of F-Prot available for download. I did the deed, and even had the sense to read 308.NEW ... Mr. F has added a wonderful little switch to F-Prot /LOADDEF This loads the definition files totally into memory. Although it can speed things up greatly, particularly if you were accessing a slow FDD instead of a HDD, it has another even more important purpose. It makes it possible to *USE* floppies again! You can read about it on the site, but basically it means you have F-PROT.EXE & ENGLISH.TX0 on diskette number 1. You are then prompted to insert the SIGN diskette, and eventually the MACRO diskette. At that point F-Prot runs, and rapidly because there are no more calls for info from the FDD. Once again a "portable F-Prot Virus Killer" is possible, and it's now faster than ever before. Now I don't expect most of *you* to end up with infected systems, but what about the office computer some idiot sticks a "game" into, or the love letters that come via e-mail and macros? Or the friend who has kid that didn't think s/he could ever catch a virus? Having a guaranteed clean, non-touchable, portable software system can be a "warm fuzzy feeling" of the best kind. l.d. P.S. I still haven't gotten that demo diskette set up, because I'd forgotten that was what I intended to do. <G> -- Join B'FOR - B'mothers For Open Records <a href="http://www.b-for.org">B'FOR web site</a> [Associate members of triad also welcome; membership confidential.] Every member counts! We need numbers to produce valid statistics. ******* A proud member of <a HREF="http://www.phenomenalwomen.com/">Phenomenal Women Of The Web</a> -- Arachne V1.64, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
