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I need to access (and hopefully retrieve intact) the contents of a file
that was created with DOUBLESPACE. This is the situation:

Someone else's computer Olivetti Echos Model 43, with 165 Mb. HDD, PC
(//NOT// MS) DOS V 7, Microsoft Windows V. 3.1.

I was the one who zeroed out the C:\ drive and re-installed DOS and
Windows, about 5 months ago, after the computer had been stoled and
subsequently recovered, but only after the owner's data and programms
had been removed and spanish language versions of all software
installed.

I never checked to see whether there were any other drives on the
computer.

YESTERDAY, I noticed when looking over the owner's shoulder, that there
was an "I" drive and a "D" drive as well as a "C" drive on the computer.

When I examined the "I" drive, and saw that one file had spanish text I
knew that whatever was on this drive had been installed by the thieves.
I deleted the contents of the drive, and then the drive itself. 

After doing so, Everything in the "C" disappeared --- no more compuserve
directory (or contents), no Word for Windows, no DOS and no documents!!!

No back-ups of any kind had been made by the owner. 

The file DBLSPACE.000 was now on the "C" drive's root directory (it
//had// been on the "I" drive.

I loaded laplink onto the computer and copied this massive (165 Mb) file
onto //MY// laptop. There it sits. I can see (using MS Word, MS Write
and Norton Disk Edit) that the data (and other files) are all (I think)
still safe in this file. 

I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GET THE DATA (most importantly) //OUT// of this
file. I can always reinstall the software. 

Part of the problem is that this program (doublespace)  is a MS-DOS
V.6.22  program, I believe, so I suppose I need that version of DOS to
access it. Assuming that is accurate:

(a) will MS DOS v. 6.2 work or does it //have// to be V. 6.22?

(b) This huge file is the size of the now uncompressed hard drive. If I
try to re-load the file onto the computer from which it came, there is
insufficient room for Windows, DOS, etc...  How do I reload DOUBLESPACE
in such a way that I can copy this huge 165 Mb file DBLSPACE.))) to its
home computer //after// recreating the proper environment?

(c) what is the order of the steps I should take?

(d) is there a way to extract the files that are now imbedded in the
DBLSPACE.000 file?

Thanks very much for your help. 

Ahmed Bin-Sadik
70214.2561@compuserve.com
Horsens, Denmark

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