Hi,
On Sat, Jan 02, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Zulfiqar,
>
> On 2 Jan 99, at 10:40, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
>
>
> > > Does this mean that rawrite will not copy the 7.09 Mb file to a
> > > floppy ?
> >
> > How can any program copy such a large file onto a 1.44 mb floppy?
> >
> > Unless of course it is compressed or something. But even then, a 6:1
> > compression is not very common for executables and kernel's.
> >
>
> Yes, I've been trying to understand why a Linux book saya that "any"
> file can be copied.
This just means the file does not need to be _exactly_ 1.44 MB in size.
You can also write a 800 KB file to a floppy (we need this for our rescue
disk).
Of course rawrite.exe cannot write a 7 MB file to a 1.44 MB floppy.
> Thanks very much
-o)
Hubert Mantel Goodbye, dots... /\\
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