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- USING DOUBLESPACE ON FLOPPY DISKS
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- There are a few things you should know before you use
- DoubleSpace on floppy disks.
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- 1. You can't use DoubleSpace unless you have installed it on
- your computer.
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- 2. The floppy disk needs to have at least .65 Megabytes
- (665K) of free space. This means you cannot use 360K,
- 5ΒΌ" diskettes. Change to the appropriate drive, and use
- the CHKDSK command to check the capacity of a diskette.
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- 3. If you plan to share data with someone else, they will not
- be able to read a DoubleSpaced diskette unless they are
- using DoubleSpace on their computer.
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- 4. Before you can use a DoubleSpaced diskette, you will need
- to MOUNT it. This is not as painful as it sounds.
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- 5. DOS will create a new drive where it will store information
- about this compressed floppy disk. It does this in the same
- fashion as it did when compressing a hard drive.
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- COMPRESSING A FLOPPY DISK
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- Make sure you read items 1-4 above. Then, to compress a floppy
- disk, do the following:
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- 1. Place a formatted floppy disk in the drive of your choice.
-
- 2. If you want to compress a diskette in your A drive, type
- the following:
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- dblspace /compress a: <ENTER>
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- A shortcut for the DBLSPACE /COMPRESS A: command
- is:
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- dblspace /com a: <ENTER>
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- Change to the newly DoubleSpaced floppy:
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- a: <ENTER>
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- Then type:
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- dblspace /info <ENTER>
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- A shortcut for the DBLSPACE /INFO command is:
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- dblspace /i <ENTER>
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- If you restart your computer or change floppy diskettes, you will
- need to MOUNT the floppy disk before it can be used.
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- This section is finished. It is an excerpt from LEARNING DOS FOR
- THE COMPLETE NOVICE, by Steven Woas, copyright 1993. When you register
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