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re: how to copy text files to floppy please help Thursday, December 4, 2003 at 3:52 pm Posted by worm (792 messages posted) Hi Gary, First and foremost, make sure that these "txt" files are just that and not a virus in disguise. The problem with viruses these days is that they can be disguised as innocent looking image or text files. Even if you have Windows configured to show extensions, it only displays the first three characters after the ".". So a virus can be disguised as "friend.txt" when in fact it is "friend.txt.vbs". You just won't see the ".vbs" extension. So when you open it, you install the virus. It's therefore vital to make sure the files and their source are geniune. But to deal with your question. The safest thing to do put the files on your the desktop for closer examination. You do that by clicking the file once with the right mouse button and choosing "Copy" from the menu. Go to the desktop, right click again and choose "Paste" from the menu. To make sure it is a Text file, right click it again and choose "Open with" from the menu and choose to open it with "Notepad". Once you're satisfied that the file is what it's supposed to be, right click it again and choose "Send to" > "3½ Floppy" from the menu. Make sure there's a floppy disk in the drive before you do that of course. Some useful info on the subject of viruses and the like here. On Thursday, December 4, 2003 at 3:42 pm, gary wrote: >got some text files emailed to me how do i copy them to a floppy disc. please explain >as simple as you can never done this before thank you [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how to copy text files to floppy please help Thursday, December 4, 2003 at 7:27 pm Posted by Ron (895 messages posted) Hi Gary, alternatively you can RIGHT click on the *.txt filename, select Send to, and choose 3 1/2 Floppy while a diskette is inserted in the A: drive. Regards, Ron [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how to copy text files to floppy please help Friday, December 5, 2003 at 3:54 pm Posted by gary (117 messages posted) thanks to all the information was very helpfull.got to learn how to do things,again thank you On Thursday, December 4, 2003 at 3:42 pm, gary wrote: >got some text files emailed to me how do i copy them to a floppy disc. please explain >as simple as you can never done this before thank you [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum