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- Subject: Re: The Party II demos available at the FUNET Archive
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.114240.62619@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 11:42:40 MDT
- References: <KIMMO.KETOLAINEN.93Jan7115206@polaris.utu.fi> <1iho36INNc0@life.ai.mit.edu> <d1gunnar.726758256@dtek.chalmers.se>
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- In article <d1gunnar.726758256@dtek.chalmers.se>, d1gunnar@dtek.chalmers.se (Gunnar Andersson) writes:
- > jbrown@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Justin William Brown) writes:
- >
- >>I agree :). But my problem was that there was NO earthly way for me to
- >>download a 900K+ dms archive because nothing I had was big enough to store
- >>it even temporarily.
- >
- > Could someone tell me how it's even possible to create a 900K dms archive?
- > Utilising tracks 80+ ? No matter what, I guess he must have used a nopack
- > mode because it's very seldom that you can't pack it at all.
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- Back in my ol' A500 512K, 1 flop days, It was quite difficult to get a DMS
- to unpack. The DMS's weren't 900K, but the disk is 800K.
-
- So, I need to fit the DMS archive, DMS itself, and certain "C" directory
- programs all on one disk. You can run out of space REALLY quick!
-
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- Travis Carter
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