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- From: hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)
- Subject: Re: Incompatible software?
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:00:31 GMT
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- Herbert Fung writes
-
- > I can sympatize with him. I would not go and repartition and
- > reformat my hard drive everytime I run into software that isn't
- > compatible with GS/OS. Any software designed for the GS should follow
-
- You DON'T have to reformat and repartition the drive EVERY time. You
- just do it once and create as many 800K partitions that you want and leave it
- like that. Then, when ever you want to put a new disk on, you just copy over a
- 800K partition and enjoy. NO BIG DEAL THERE.
-
- I agree, its no fun that some software requires to be ran from floppy,
- but this is viable solution that works well and fast for some of those
- programs. I wish I had known when I had formatted my drive, but I can manage
- without it. I suppose if your friend copied those programs to an 800K
- partition, he might get some of those "UniDisk" unfriendly programs to work as
- well.
-
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