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- From: kh6zv9@victoria.pe.net (bob masse)
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- Subject: Re: Question: GEOS Backup
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 17:14:07 -0800
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- Robert Watson (rmwatson@eskimo.com) wrote:
-
- : Through various trades and deals, I have acquired a set of original
- : copies of GEOS V1.2 and the upgrade V1.3. What I wish to do is make a
- : BACKUP copy of the original GEOS disk, but whenever I do, I notice that
- : some of the files are missing, and/or have diminished in size.
- :
- : I understand of course that some commercial programs, (and especially OS)
- : were deliberately programmed to allow disk errors to reside permanently
- : on the floppy, thereby inhibiting and attempts to copy.
- :
- : My first question is this: Has anybody reading this been successful at
- : copying GEOS (for backup), and if so, what technique (or utility) did you
- : use?
- :
- : Your help is appreciated.
- :
- : Robert
- : rmwatson@eskimo.com
-
-
- Robert,
-
- Creative Micro Design sells a program called GEOMAKEBOOT which works well .
- (At least on version 2.0 of Geos). I am able to put bootable copies of
- Geos on any drive I want.
-
- Bob
- kh6zv9@pe.net
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