Joe
Yes , but I seem to remember that these disks had to be formatted
differently (DMF format) to accept the larger sized files. There is a
shareware utility that does (did) this, I think available from
www.winimage.com?
Tony
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Joe Geiser
Sent: Thursday, 18 March 1999 08:10
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Subject: Re: Off Topic: 2MB Floppy


Art,
>     I can't remember the exact size but another possibility
> is a MicroSoft
> "Master Disk" which is created using a compression method
> that causes it to hold around 1.8 mb or so???
Microsoft uses a "Cabinet File" which can vary in size, but it is usually in
the 1.8MB area.  These files have an extension of .CAB and are used for
everything now.
This supercedes the old compressed fileset - those files with the last
letter of their extension of "_" (ie: somefile.ex_ which expands to
somefile.exe)
Regards,
Joe
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