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Date:	Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:38:13 -0800
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Faking the system...?

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--- Martin Rosenfeld wrote:

> I have a program that must be installed from a
> floppy drive and then
> read its data from a CD. Is there a program to
> create a virtual floppy
> to which I can copy the installation files?

If memory serves, there were (at least) two of these
for our platform, used at one time or another (for
example) by Hayo Baan's BOOTCD. One of these was
abandoned shareware, with no further way to register
it and an excessive price. That got dropped, and for
the last 2 or 3 years BOOTCD has just used the free
one. (Sorry about blanking on the names, but I
haven't had my caffeine fix yet this morning.)

> Also, is there a way to
> create a fake or virtual CD in a harddrive for the
> program to read its data from?

I'm unsure about this for *our* platform, so check
Hobbes with some keyword searches. (On the Dark Side,
you'd be using Daemon Tools for this -- up until they
started getting complaints about the later version --
or else the Nero Drive Mounter, which is probably a
free download.)

Jordan

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