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Tips for Geos 2.0
The following is an excerpt from a letter I wrote to Berkeley Softworks
regarding some errors in the manual for Geos 2.0. I have also made suggestions
for making your work disks, which the manual doesn't cover very well.
I think the installation procedure is rather complicated, especially for
the first-time user; be sure to follow the instruction to the letter. I don't
see the necessity of keying Geos to your applications, and nowhere in the
manual did I find an explanation of how I will key future Geos purchases to my
system disk.
I believe there are a few errors in the procedure regarding the making of
back up copies of the master disk. On page 10, you are instructed to format
six disks and on page 11 suggested names for the disks are given. Page 13
then instructs the user to copy the master disks using the Disk Copy program
on the System Disk. Using this program formats the disks a second time and
removes the disk name I selected previously. The back up copy then has the
same name as the master disk.
There appears to be another discrepancy between pages 11 and 13. Page 11,
step 6 d