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- Notes on accessing Freethought Disks
-
- All EXE files are compressed and need to be loaded to a Hard
- Drive. All nine disks require approximately 12M of disk space,
- still compressed!
- To make copying easier, I made (on my computer) a Freethought
- books directory I called FREELIT and then made 9 sub-directories
- called; DISK1, DISK2, DISK3, etc. so that I could use the Copy *.*
- command when duplicating them.
- Volume label on the orginal set of disks was WISDOM94A. There
- are some errors on the disks; mostly machine errors, such as line
- feeds, but also I detected some typos and even a duplicate essay in
- different files. As these errors are corrected, I (we) need to up-
- grade the volume label, from a to b to c, etc. The 94 is the year
- that I last copied it. I had removed a couple of errors on the
- original and added BROWSE to each disk for easier access.
- This set of disks is volume WISDOM94B
- To access the files after you put them on your hard drive,
- using my example, type C:\FREELIT\DISK1, ENTER. I then type the
- name of the file, ie, ING01 and the file will expand giving several
- file names xxxx.DOS or xxxx.D. The DOS files are in ASCII format.
- If you want to look at a file, type BROWSE FILENAME.DOS. Be
- careful to manage your disk space. You may want to limit expanding
- the files to DOS files one .EXE file or disk at a time.
- The Ingersoll files (Disks 1-3) will print out to almost 5200
- pages! I haven't added up the other 7 disks, yet.
-
- Congratulations on now possessing a fine Freethought library;
- a larger collection than are in most libraries. I hope you will
- copy them and give them to school and public libraries all around
- your area. This makes a great Chapter project. Don't forget to
- reward yourself with a personal copy! Thank You.
-
- Frank Prahl
- AHA Field Developer
- P. O. Box 5888
- Pasadena, TX 77508-5888
-
- (713)479-6829