On 1999-03-11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>I just got an old non-functioning computer from someone.
>(a packard-hell). After giving up on trying to make it to work
>again,
I've done that before.....those things are nothing but junk!
>Unfortunatly, I am not quite certain about just copying and moving
>the programs as usuall, as some of them spread their files all
>across the disk.
I take it that it has Windows on it, too! If so copying probably won't do
it, as Windows programs always have *.dll files in the Windows and
Windows/system directory (Win3.1x).
Assuming it is a Win3.1x machine, check to see if some of the programs are
actually DOS programs running from Windows. They can probably be copied
directly.
>I have however did found out something: That disk
>was using Double-disk compression (or whatever they used with MSDOS
>6.20). I am thinking about copying the 250MB .BIN file to my disk,
>storing it there, and then later when I want to browse these
>programs again just put it back on the disk. Can anyone tell me if
>this is possible, and if it is, then recommend on how to do it?
It is called Doublespace. Later MS went with Drivespace, in 6.22. I have
had this experience too. I just uncompressed the drive before I copied
stuff. I don't remember exactly what I did, Though, to do it.
BTW, I later lost the cool stuff I copied....do to my being stupid, and not
making sure I had the correct HD selected while using Fdisk!!
Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek, MI
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Test Drive
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