On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Olin Lathrop wrote:

>> Storing floppies that you value in a suitable environment can help.
>
>Storing anything you value on a floppy without a decent backup is a bad
>idea.  CD-Rs are much more reliable and will probably outlive the drives to
>read them.

I will forward your recommendation to Microsoft, who supplied the MSDOS
install disks ... ;-)

Peter

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