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Feb 17, 2005 | 4:16 pm

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pdhenry

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I did a quick Google search and the news doesn't look good:

Quote:

Re: DoubleSpace/ DrivePpace

D 1 who Truly Luvs Computers!! [email protected]> wrote:

>I currently am using Windows XP, but I would like to know where I can acquire
>a copy of the older Compression Utility called DriveSpace/ DoubleSpace that
>was at one time a standard inclusion in previous versions of Windows (eg.
>WIndows 95)!

No joy. That was a 16 bit real mode driver, which you quite explicitly
*cannot* load in XP. And is obsolete technology; there is no XP
equivalent. All you can do is load the drive concerned up in a Win95 or
98 that has it installed, and copy the files out to some other,
uncompressed, medium

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. [email protected] (remove the D8 bit)

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:52:34 +0000 Alex Nichol

http://windows.meetholland.com/message/96302.aspx

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