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In article <mhachman-0...@shelley.helios.nd.edu>, mhac...@darwin.cc.nd.edu (Mark Hachman) writes:
|> Okay, here's the problem:
|> I just got the game Ultima 7, in 3.5 form. I have a 5.25 disk drive, and
|> that's it. I don't have a disk exchange card in the box, but I do have the
|> reg card, so all's well there. However, I don't really want to mail in an
|> exchange request if I can simply copy the disks via a campus computer onto
|> 5.25 format. One major problem is that there's one file (I've already tried
|> installing it to a campus PC to see if that would help--it doesn't--I did
|> erased it at that point from the HD) that's 6 Megs in uncompressed form.
|> 
|> I seem to recall one way to format 5.25 disks to 1.44 format w/o bad
|> sectors, but I'm not sure how to do that. (I have DOS 5.0) If that's all it
|> takes, just let me know. I would think that would work. Also, would PKZip
|> compress a 6 meg file down under 1.2? (and how does one maximally compress
|> a file to do this?) However, if there's any other ideas, please help. I
|> assume Origin would convert the disks if I have the reg card, but I can't
|> be certain...
|> 
|> Mark Hachman

There exists a utility called VGA-Copy. It is able to copy disks of different 
format, even format disk to unusual formats ( for example 3.5" disks up to 
1.7 MB). 

I don't know what ftp-site its on, but if you don't find it, mail me and i will
send you a uuencoded version via e-mail.

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