NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/misc/11515

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From: [e-mail] (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: Need help with old program
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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 06:34:25 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Tom Guptill) writes:
>
>    Here's an interesting problem.  I need to run IBM Writing Assistant
>(A very old program--it's from the first days of the PC) on a machine that
>doesn't have a 5.25" drive.  I either need to find out if there was ever a
>version available on 3.5" diskettes (which I doubt) or if there is a way to
>remove the copy protection so that I can transfer the program.  (I _do_ have
>a genuine copy, with manual and everything.)  Anyone have any ideas?  The
>installation program _won't_ let me install it to another floppy--it
>recognizes that it's not a hard drive.  Thanks for any help anyone can
>offer.

Have you tried the ASSIGN command?
Just type ASSIGN B=C to make all references to drive C: actually
go to drive B:.
Typing ASSIGN alone will cancel the assignment.
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