Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00

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Duncan Breckels (breckels_d_v@bt-web.bt.co.uk) wrote:

> I think that MS use a standard DOS format for the first distribution disk 
> and a special un-copyable format for the subsequent disks which can only 
> be read by the install program on the first disk.

It is not uncopyable, but a dense packing to get 1.7Mb on a disk.
There are a number of (PC) programmes that can format disks the same
way and copy them.

--
Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England

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From: malcolm@thokk.demon.co.uk (Malcolm Muir)
Subject: Re: MS Word 6 on Acorn PC card
Date: 1995/09/06
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