kat, Plenty of suggestions here but the one I use is Winzip. It is shareware rather than freeware but I like the program and it is caable of producing a compressed archive that spans multile floppy disks. I also find a handy program for compressing files to send via email.

Mary, not sure what the situation with share.exe is now. It used to exist under MS-DOS but I can't find the file on my current Win98 stup.

Re-partitions, I have my 8.4Gb hard disk divided into 3 partitions and I am using 2 of those for Windows (I'm using the 3rd for Linux) and I have not encountered any installation problems under Windows98 using this setup. The only program I have that causes me a problem is one I wrote. I hardcoded into the program that a certain dll would exist in a certain drive/ directory - not a good poclicy but I guess others have done the same as me..

Jon