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                 USING DOUBLESPACE ON FLOPPY DISKS
        
        There are a few things you should know before you use
        DoubleSpace on floppy disks.
        
        1.   You can't use DoubleSpace unless you have installed it on
             your computer. 
        
        2.   The floppy disk needs to have at least .65 Megabytes
             (665K) of free space.  This means you cannot use 360K,
             5¬" diskettes.  Change to the appropriate drive, and use
             the CHKDSK command to check the capacity of a diskette. 
             
        3.   If you plan to share data with someone else, they will not
             be able to read a DoubleSpaced diskette unless they are
             using DoubleSpace on their computer.
        
        4.   Before you can use a DoubleSpaced diskette, you will need
             to MOUNT it.  This is not as painful as it sounds.
        
        5.   DOS will create a new drive where it will store information
             about this compressed floppy disk.  It does this in the same
             fashion as it did when compressing a hard drive.  
        
        
                  COMPRESSING A FLOPPY DISK
        
        Make sure you read items 1-4 above.  Then, to compress a floppy
        disk, do the following:
        
        1.   Place a formatted floppy disk in the drive of your choice.
        
        2.   If you want to compress a diskette in your A drive, type
             the following:
        
                       dblspace /compress a: <ENTER>
        
             A shortcut for the DBLSPACE /COMPRESS A: command
             is:
                  
                       dblspace /com a: <ENTER>
        
             Change to the newly DoubleSpaced floppy:
        
                       a: <ENTER>
        
             Then type:
        
                       dblspace /info <ENTER> 
        
              A shortcut for the DBLSPACE /INFO command is:
        
                       dblspace /i <ENTER>
        
        If you restart your computer or change floppy diskettes, you will
        need to MOUNT the floppy disk before it can be used.
        
        
        
        
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