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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Steven had a different method of making the 2 floppy 
> disks on an earlier version that worked fine for me.  

But it caused endless problems for other people.

> Perhaps the new one just won't work on all hardware?  

Only if PCDOS 3.3 doesn't work on all hardware.

> I would appreciate if the other method could be posted as 
> an alternate.  

I won't be doing that, but you are very welcome to hunt for
a copy of BL 2.0 and use the make_fd.bat from that.

> It reformats the second floppy disk to hold more data, 

The higher density on the floppy makes it much more difficult
to make the floppy on one drive and then successfully boot it 
on another.

> Something seems to be going wrong for me in the reassembly step.  
> In addition to the divide overflow, most of the time it simply 
> does not seem to copy part2 of the divided file.

It is done with DOS batch files.  I suggest you rename autoexec.bat
on the first floppy (to stop it from autoexecuting) and then do each
step from the commandline to see what happens.

Cheers,
Steven