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If the Amiga has been updated to OS2.1 or later, it has CrossDOS as part of the operating system. If not, CrossDOS can be purchased and installed. It costs around $25-30. CrossDOS provides a disk system that makes the Amiga drive read and write MSDOS format. It's really neat. Once it is installed, you can put a disk in and read Amiga format by addressing the drive as DF0:, or as an MSDOS drive by calling it PC0:, and it changes its way of reading/writing according to the name you give. The A500 almost certainly has an 880K drive, so it will need a 720K MSDOS disk. Some of the higher-end Amigas have high density (1.76M) drives, and they can read/write 1.44m MSDOS disks, but I seriously doubt that the A500 has the HD drive. Almost everything here is compressed with LHA. Get LHA138.RUN from Library 14 of AmigaUser. It is self-dissolving. Tell him to put in into RAM:, and then type CD RAM: LHA138.RUN COPY LHA C: After that, he can use it with the command line: lha x path:filename.lha —Betty