Re: Nathan's floppy

[Jay McNally jmcnally@xxxxxxxx]

For what it's worth,
Periodically I do fairly intensive graphics work at home, where I don't
have a high-powered printer, and tried to get my work output at Kinko's.
As a result I now always carry Quark on a ZIP disk, and when I need to
print stuff at Kinko's, work off the floppy.
I've often thought the real solution some day will be for people to carry
around not a $2,000 laptop which get stolen and damaged, but a $20 ZIP disk
with all the software and documents on it.
Some time ago I discovered I could take virtually all of the graphics
software not print At 09:46 AM 8/12/01 -0700, you wrote:
> Folks:
>
> Nathan is correct in his suggestion that those of us clinging to XYDOS (in
> my case 3.57) would have no trouble fitting it to a floppy disc for use on
> a laptop. I have a 1.44 disc with command.com (50,000 bytes) and Xywrite
> with dictionaries but Short Help only taking up 550,000 bytes, leaving me
> more space than I could ever fill on a two week research trip. The disc
> has worked for me for something like 10 years.
>
> Ed