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echo: os2
to: Bob Wright
from: Lawrence R. Mintz
date: 1999-10-22 19:38:00
subject: Y2K

 BW> Greetings, Lawrence...

 BW>  Lawrence R. Mintz hastily said to Bob Wright:


 BW>>> Your friend should probably use the program to create the
 BW>>> floppies once they're downloaded.

 LRM>> You don't need to create the numerous floppy disks if you use a program
 LRM>> such as diunpack which unpacks the .dk* files into files on your hard
 LRM>> disk. Diunpack can be found in fastk***.zip.   The last version I had
 LRM>> was
 LRM>> fastk139, but there should be versions for cs140 and cs141 as well.

 BW> True enough. However in this case, Linda was having a
 BW> friend d/l the fixpack for her.  Since the fixpack
 BW> wouldn't do a lot of good on the friend's hard drive, it
 BW> seemed to be a good idea to place them on some form of
 BW> media that is transportable.  :)

Unless both of them have the very popular zip drives.

Larry

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