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   Harry Potter to Grant Taylor   
   Re: Win98 batch file to temporarily deco   
   19 May 19 10:04:11   
   
   From: rose.joseph12@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 12:58:39 PM UTC-4, Grant Taylor wrote:   
   > I'm suggesting doing the following (if you can).   
   >   
   > 1)  Create a small (100 MB ~ 1 GB) compressed drive image.   
   > 2)  Mount it to a drive letter (B:).   
   > 3)  Install the program to that drive letter (B:).   
   > 4)  Unmount the cmpressed drive image.   
   > 5)  Create a batch file that will mount the compressed drive image,   
   > start the program, and unmount the compressed drive image.   
   > 6)  Repeat steps 1-5 for each program.   
   >   
   Okay.  So, how do I create the small compressed image on a FAT32 hard drive?     
   BTW, I am compressing floppies, but some programs are too large to fit o   
   floppy.  :(   
      
   > So each program lives in a separate compressed drive image.  All of the   
   > images live on the system drive, which is itself NOT compressed.   
   >   
   That would be cool.  I am doing that with JAM, but, IIRC, JAM doesn't work on   
   Win98.  :(   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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