drivespace 3

So their is no 3rd party utility for Win XP in existance that can read a
diskette compressed by such a monster?

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No. You just need someone with windows 98 to uncompress the files for you.

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So their is no 3rd party utility for Win XP in existance that can read a
diskette compressed by such a monster?

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forward to the trip.

Windows XP has it's own compression, which is far superior. Therefore,
DriveSpace is not needed - nor is it supported.

Find a computer with the same operating system that was used to create the
floppies in the first place. Then you will have to copy the files to the
hard disk and re-save them in a more conventional format (CD etc.).

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"Caesar" wrote in message
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So their is no 3rd party utility for Win XP in existance that can read a
diskette compressed by such a monster?

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forward to the trip.

Are you sure there's no Drivespace solution at all?
I think I read somewhere that if you install Win98 before XP there is some
kind of option to maitain better compatibility with the previous OS - even
being still able to boot Win98. Is this true?

"Caesar" wrote in message
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So their is no 3rd party utility for Win XP in existance that can read a
diskette compressed by such a monster?

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forward to the trip.

Yes, you can install Win98 and XP in dual boot configuration. That would
make Drivespace3 available, but still only under W98...


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Are you sure there's no Drivespace solution at all?
I think I read somewhere that if you install Win98 before XP there is some
kind of option to maitain better compatibility with the previous OS - even
being still able to boot Win98. Is this true?

"Caesar" wrote in message
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So their is no 3rd party utility for Win XP in existance that can read a
diskette compressed by such a monster?

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looks
forward to the trip.

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"Guy Ollerearnshaw" wrote:

Are you sure there's no Drivespace solution at all?
I think I read somewhere that if you install Win98 before XP there is some
kind of option to maitain better compatibility with the previous OS - even
being still able to boot Win98. Is this true?

"Caesar" wrote in message
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So their is no 3rd party utility for Win XP in existance that can read a
diskette compressed by such a monster?

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forward to the trip.

Salut/Hi Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-),

le/on Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:26:12 -0500, tu disais/you said:-

Windows XP has it's own compression, which is far superior. Therefore,
DriveSpace is not needed - nor is it supported.

A prime example of backward compatibility.

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No. Progress. Drivespace just isn't efficient anymore.

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Salut/Hi Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-),

le/on Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:26:12 -0500, tu disais/you said:-

Windows XP has it's own compression, which is far superior. Therefore,
DriveSpace is not needed - nor is it supported.

A prime example of backward compatibility.

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Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" ,

le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:50:14 -0700, tu disais/you said:-

No. Progress. Drivespace just isn't efficient anymore.

I don't agree that not supporting in 2002 what you were pushing as the best
thing since sliced bread in 1998 is exactly progress. In many fields, it is
compulsory to provide spare parts for items for 10 years after they were
last sold. Failing to support a 98 feature in XP seems to me to be very much
the sort of arrogance that makes many professionals froth at the mouth when
talking about Microsoft. I really would have thought that it wouldn't have
been beyond Microsoft's ability to produce a decompressor/decoder.
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There are no longer horse stables on my street.

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Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" ,

le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:50:14 -0700, tu disais/you said:-

No. Progress. Drivespace just isn't efficient anymore.

I don't agree that not supporting in 2002 what you were pushing as the
best
thing since sliced bread in 1998 is exactly progress. In many fields, it
is
compulsory to provide spare parts for items for 10 years after they were
last sold. Failing to support a 98 feature in XP seems to me to be very
much
the sort of arrogance that makes many professionals froth at the mouth
when
talking about Microsoft. I really would have thought that it wouldn't have
been beyond Microsoft's ability to produce a decompressor/decoder.
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Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" ,

le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:44:43 -0700, tu disais/you said:-

There are no longer horse stables on my street.

Aren't there? We still have some here (seriously).

Don't you think your analogy is just a tad extreme however? Even in
backwoods old central France, horses haven't been used that much for 60
years, while Win 98 was only introduced 7 years ago. I do feel that there is
a tiny weeny difference.
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:09:53 +0100, Ian Hoare wrote:

I don't agree that not supporting in 2002 what you were pushing as the best
thing since sliced bread in 1998 is exactly progress. In many fields, it is
compulsory to provide spare parts for items for 10 years after they were
last sold. Failing to support a 98 feature in XP seems to me to be very much
the sort of arrogance that makes many professionals froth at the mouth when
talking about Microsoft. I really would have thought that it wouldn't have
been beyond Microsoft's ability to produce a decompressor/decoder.

Keep in mind that XP is from the NT branch of the MS product line: WinNT,
Win2000, WinXP. No drivespace present in any of them. The Win9x line was
separate from that progression.

Your point is not lost though. For example, MSBackup incompatibilities from
one Win9x flavor to the next. Or even drivespace, drivespace 2, etc.

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Salut/Hi Sharon F,

le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:54:22 -0600, tu disais/you said:-

last sold. Failing to support a 98 feature in XP seems to me to be very much
the sort of arrogance that makes many professionals froth at the mouth when
talking about Microsoft. I really would have thought that it wouldn't have
been beyond Microsoft's ability to produce a decompressor/decoder.

Keep in mind that XP is from the NT branch of the MS product line: WinNT,
Win2000, WinXP. No drivespace present in any of them. The Win9x line was
separate from that progression.

Good point. A shame that Colin didn't make it. However, I imagine (possibly
I'm wrong) that DriveSpace was written in C or C++. If that's the case,
there are sure to be suitable compilers which "understand" both operating
systems and a port wouldn't have been TOO hard, I suspect. I quite
understand that code to decompress a FAT16 or FAT32 drivespace volume onto
NTFS might have been boring to write, and it might have been no longer
trivial, but nevertheless, I believe that as a consumer, I have the right to
expect a company with such a dominent position in the OS market to take its
responsabilities seriously. (The fact that in the past they often haven't in
no way changes things).

Your point is not lost though. For example, MSBackup incompatibilities from
one Win9x flavor to the next. Or even drivespace, drivespace 2, etc.

Or Word documents. I don't use Word and it can be tricky sometimes to find a
suitable flavour of Wordpad.

Thanks for avoiding the agressive kneejerk reaction of one or two of your
fellow MVPs, by the way.

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You mean the hyperbole? Not so extreme. XP is not descended from Win98 and
Drivespace in any flavor is obsolete. Drivespace 3 belonged the Windows 4.x
era. XP is, of course, part of the Windows 5.x era along with W2k and W2k3.
All this is by way of ribbing you just a little, but there really never was
any need to keep drivespace around like one would an application.

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Salut/Hi "Colin Barnhorst" ,

le/on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:44:43 -0700, tu disais/you said:-

There are no longer horse stables on my street.

Aren't there? We still have some here (seriously).

Don't you think your analogy is just a tad extreme however? Even in
backwoods old central France, horses haven't been used that much for 60
years, while Win 98 was only introduced 7 years ago. I do feel that there
is
a tiny weeny difference.
--
All the Best
Ian Hoare
http://www.souvigne.com
mailbox full to avoid spam. try me at website

Colin Barnhorst wrote:
XP is not descended from
Win98 and Drivespace in any flavor is obsolete. Drivespace 3
belonged the Windows 4.x era.

Were there ever a Drivespace 3 for NT 4.0?