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Article #83Re: Reading MS 1.8Mbyte format diskettes--HELP?
From: ajzeman
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 02:51
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 02:51
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In <3gkuu5$1mhs@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, jerryp@ibm.net writes: >I was trying to install Word 6.0c under Warp, and was unable to. The first disk, >which is in "normal" 1.44 Mbyte format, is perfectly readable; however, the >following diskettes are in Microsoft's "new" format, which packs about 1.8 Mbytes >onto a floppy. > I just read in PCWeek that there is a patch available in the Compuserve OS/2 forums that addresses this exact problem. They did not mention if it available on the Internet somewhere. Hope it all works out. Allyn Zeman
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