Need help with retrieving data from a DOS 2.11 formated floppy disk

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon May 7 16:58:35 2001

        It sounds to me like it would be quite a non-standard format,
as I don't believe DOS 2.11 supports the 1.44meg format. Anyone
else?

        Jeff

>Hi everyone:
>
>
>I need help to solve a problem. Could anyone lends a hand?
>
>The company I work for has a machine that runs on DOS 2.11
>There are some data on that machine that we need to retrieve. The
>information is transfered from that old machine to a 1.44mb floppy.
>
>When we put the floppy into our pentium winNT4 computer , we can not
>read the information on the floppy. The NT os simply says it does
>not know what format the files are at.
>
>Now do I need to install a dos 2.11 or is there anyway around it ?
>What is the format the dos2.11 writing its files in?
>Are there any program that reads in that type of format?
>Does any one here have DOS 2.11 that I can download?
>Even if I do have DOS 2.11, will I be able to install it or do I
>need very old hardware as well?
>
>Jimmy Tsai
>SFU engineering 3rd year
>
>

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