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From: ike@zds-ux.UUCP (John Eichenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Cnvrt MS-DOS 5.0 from 3.5 to 5.25 HELP
Message-ID: <635@zds-ux.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 04:03:22 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.092013.51422@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
Reply-To: ike@zds-ux.UUCP (John Eichenberger)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: Zenith Data Systems
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In article <1991Jun18.092013.51422@gmuvax.gmu.edu> juraschek@gmuvax.gmu.edu writes:
> ....  I wanna break down the
>3.5's into their equivalent 5.25's so I can upgrade the 5.25" machine
>and know they'll be no problems.
>
>Could some kind soul ....
> .... so I can make such diskettes from my 3.5's?  

Avoiding the legal aspect for a moment, it is not even entirely possible
to put MS-DOS 5.0 on a smaller format of media than what you received it on.
This is because there is a binary file which contains a complete list
of every file, every volume label, etc. on the distribution diskettes.
Note that it is possible to convert the 360K distribution diskettes to the
720K format.

As for the legal aspect of copying the software, if the reason you need
to copy it is that you've gotten one copy for your one machine but drive
A: is not the correct format, then copying it so that you can install it
properly on your one machine should be legal, I think.  But even then you
could probably send your diskettes in for a even trade.

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