Given the CAB files for the 24 disk version on a hdd, one could reput them
onto the 1.68mb DMF disks quite easily with dos :P no utils needed except
for norton diskedit :P
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> It can be sheeted to M$.
>
> By doing this they prevent you from making legitimate copies of their
> application software, so if you get a stuffed disk then you have one hell
> of a problem getting a replacement. They only introduced this at some
> stage in 1994 because I have a copy of M$ Office Professional that runs to
> 31 floppies as well as one that only runs to 24 floppies.
>
> Trouble is that both sets have some corrupted disks now, and I need them
> to support the one client who still insists on running 3.11 and Office
> 4.3.
>
> I have now told him that I will not provide further support for his
> config.
>
> Sorry, but this has gottn way OT. Turps time calls. Avagoodn.
>
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> it's a bourgeois right, closely allied to the right to private property".
> - Former Federal Health Minister Neal Blewett,
> addressing the Fabian Society in 1988 in relation to the Australia Card issue.
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, DaZZa wrote:
>
> >
> > This one can;t reasonably be blamed on M$ - as much as I hate to say it.
> > :-)
> >
>
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