Can KeyNote be run from a floppy disk?
Not any more. Currently (version 1.2) KeyNote’s size just about exceeds the capacity of a 1.44 floppy diskette. You can, however, download an older version that still fits – the last version of KeyNote that could be put on a floppy disk was version 0.999. See the Download page for a link to that file, but please use it only if you must run KeyNote from a floppy. Do not install KeyNote onto a floppy disk, but install it to your hard drive and then just copy “keynote.exe” to the floppy. You do not need to copy any of the supplementary files (*.tip, *.wav, *.adr, *.sig, *.kns); KeyNote will work fine without them, but they are small so you might as well include them if you want. KeyNote will create its own configuration files, though, so make sure some space is left on the floppy. Also, as KeyNote grows in size, there may be little or no room for the actual data file(s). If KeyNote and its associated files do not fit on a diskette, you can use an “executable compressor” program (like the
