Re: Incompatible software?

[hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)]

Herbert Fung writes

> I can sympatize with him. I would not go and repartition  and
> reformat my hard drive everytime I run into software that isn't
> compatible with GS/OS. Any software designed for the GS should follow

	You DON'T have to reformat and repartition the drive EVERY time. You  
just do it once and create as many 800K partitions that you want and leave it  
like that. Then, when ever you want to put a new disk on, you just copy over a  
800K partition and enjoy. NO BIG DEAL THERE. 

	I agree, its no fun that some software requires to be ran from floppy,  
but this is viable solution that works well and fast for some of those  
programs. I wish I had known when I had formatted my drive, but I can manage  
without it. I suppose if your friend copied those programs to an 800K  
partition, he might get some of those "UniDisk" unfriendly programs to work as  
well. 

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