In a message dated 1/29/2007 5:47:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
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Folks,
I've got a problem which I never seen discussed here  so....
I have a XLS file, slightly over 2 Mbytes in size, on an old  Windows-95 
machine that I want to transfer to this machine running Windows-XP  Pro.  The 
problem is that the W-95 machine has only a single floppy  drive, and no USB 
ports, whereas this machine has no floppy drive, but does  have USB ports.  Does 
anyone know if (or how) I can break the larger file  into two parts so that each 
part will fit onto a floppy - then I can go to a  third machine which has 
both a floppy drive and USB ports.  There I could  then put the two sections back 
together (is that possible-?), transfer that  larger file to a flash drive 
and then load it onto this machine using the USB  ports.
Is this doable or not?
Lewis Emerson



Lewis,
      I'm not sure how you could fit even 1g on a  floppy unless maybe it was 
a zip file, but another option
     would be a USB cable adapter to hook to your  serial or parallel ports 
on the win95 machine.
      
      I haven't used one so i need to ask the  other listers if this works in 
both directions (USB to serial / serial
      to USB).
 
      If indeed this would work, you can see a  selection at the Tiger Direct 
link below.
      _http://tinyurl.com/2tb6ma_ (http://tinyurl.com/2tb6ma) 
 
    Best of luck!
   -Phillip Williams-

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