Now that you've got the solution to copying on floppies ... why not buy a "thumb" drive (flash memory) for about $30 and use it for the whole Xy directory and much more? Widely sold--e.g., at Staples. The thumb drives require a minimum of win98 SE and some brands are a bit hard to install on that OS, but I hear it goes in easily under later OS's.I think, I think I found the solution, while waiting for an answer. Using PkZip for DOS, the only reasonable OS, as far as I am concerned, I issued the following command: pkzip -&fuc:\xy4\*.* I keep a couple of them stored in my laptop bag. Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx