USING DOUBLESPACE ON FLOPPY DISKS There are a few things you should know before you use DoubleSpace on floppy disks. 1. You can't use DoubleSpace unless you have installed it on your computer. 2. The floppy disk needs to have at least .65 Megabytes (665K) of free space. This means you cannot use 360K, 5¬" diskettes. Change to the appropriate drive, and use the CHKDSK command to check the capacity of a diskette. 3. If you plan to share data with someone else, they will not be able to read a DoubleSpaced diskette unless they are using DoubleSpace on their computer. 4. Before you can use a DoubleSpaced diskette, you will need to MOUNT it. This is not as painful as it sounds. 5. DOS will create a new drive where it will store information about this compressed floppy disk. It does this in the same fashion as it did when compressing a hard drive. COMPRESSING A FLOPPY DISK Make sure you read items 1-4 above. Then, to compress a floppy disk, do the following: 1. Place a formatted floppy disk in the drive of your choice. 2. If you want to compress a diskette in your A drive, type the following: dblspace /compress a: A shortcut for the DBLSPACE /COMPRESS A: command is: dblspace /com a: Change to the newly DoubleSpaced floppy: a: Then type: dblspace /info A shortcut for the DBLSPACE /INFO command is: dblspace /i If you restart your computer or change floppy diskettes, you will need to MOUNT the floppy disk before it can be used. This section is finished. It is an excerpt from LEARNING DOS FOR THE COMPLETE NOVICE, by Steven Woas, copyright 1993. When you register this program, you will receive the 336 page book, LEARNING DOS FOR THE COMPLETE NOVICE which covers DOS 3.2 through DOS 6. To register send $15.95 plus $2.00 for shipping to: Celestial Press 4424 Dohrcrest Dr. Suite C New Port Richey, FL 34652 Phone (813) 845-8522 US customers can order toll-free 1-800-330-3311 Fax (813) 845-8522 We accept Visa & MasterCard Florida orders add 6% sales tax.