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   Harry Potter to Grant Taylor   
   Re: Win98 batch file to temporarily deco   
   19 May 19 11:09:22   
   
   From: rose.joseph12@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 1:32:00 PM UTC-4, Grant Taylor wrote:   
   > On 5/19/19 11:04 AM, Harry Potter wrote:   
   > > Okay.  So, how do I create the small compressed image on a FAT32   
   > > hard drive?   
   >   
   > I don't know yet.   
   >   
   > I'm guessing that Drive Space that's included with Windows 98 has an   
   > artificial limit and will refuse to create compressed drives on FAT-32.   
   >   
   It does.  :(   
      
   > > BTW, I am compressing floppies, but some programs are too large to   
   > > fit o floppy.  :(   
   >   
   > What file system is on your Zip disks?  Can you create the compressed   
   > image there?   
   >   
   FAT16.  I compressed some.  :)  I want to keep some stuff on the hard drive   
   and a suitable flash drive treated as a hard drive.  Both are FAT32.   
      
   > > That would be cool.  I am doing that with JAM, but, IIRC, JAM doesn't   
   > > work on Win98.  :(   
   >   
   > I'm not familiar with JAM.   
   >   
   JAM is a small drive compression driver for DOS.  It doesn't work on the Win98   
   computer in question but does work on my DOS laptop.   
      
   > What OS are you running?  (If you're using JAM and JAM isn't compatible   
   > with '98, you probably aren't running '98.  At least on the machine in   
   > question.)   
   >   
   I'm using Win98.  Again, JAM is for my DOS laptop.   
      
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