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Name: Les Cobbledick
Date: January 23, 2001 at 10:48:25 Pacific
Subject: copying dos files

Comment:

Dear Dos experts,
can you please tell me howto install a dos file on a floppy in to the C:\ drive.The file in question is a cd driver file MSCDEX.EXE FOR dos vers 2.22 which I downloaded to upgrade this old system.

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Response Number 1

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Date: January 23, 2001 at 13:57:14 Pacific
Subject: copying dos files

Reply: (edit)

COPY A:\MSCDEX.EXE C:\DOS
This will place it into your C:\DOS Directory.

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Response Number 2

Name: fred6008
Date: January 24, 2001 at 22:57:45 Pacific
Subject: copying dos files

Reply: (edit)

And don't forget that you have to put a line in your autoexec.bat for the file to do any good.

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