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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 13:22:28 EST
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- From: "Phil M. Jones" <pjones@rvgs.vak12ed.edu>
- Subject: Re: DOS BACKUP
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- Organization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Roanoke)
-
- I'm posting this folowup to my followup to answer some
- questions brought up to my reference to "Mac's" and not having
- to worry about systems.
- First off I use a Mac SE/30 with 5 megs RAM an 80meg
- internal Hard Drive (TPI-Quantum) and a 105meg external
- (TPI-Quantum) Hard Drive. I use the external to backup the
- internal. Io backup I simply turn on the external when I want
- to do a backup; open the desktop file by double-clicking on the
- drive--whoes files I desire to backup, highlight--by clicking
- on files desired and draging to the icon of the external drive.
- No fuss no muss. Or I can use the Backup portion of SUMII (the
- older version not the new version that is a cross between SUM
- II and NORTON UTILITIES); this will compress the files as it is
- backed up.
- One of the stated purposes of the "Macintosh" concept
- in the first place is to shield the user from the loading and
- minipulation of the system. This is so the person using the
- computer can get on with work, rather than having to crak up
- the sysytem every time. Even work is much easier to do on the
- Mac, if people would convert to it. For just one example only;
- if you have already written and saved a file and need to work
- on it again, simply double-click on it's file Icon and the Mac
- automatically opens the program/application that created it.
- That to this point can not physically be done on DOS machines.
- That one simply fact alone if the people using computers, and
- creating software would realize this then the demise of DOS
- machines would be eminient.
-
- Phil M. Jones
- pjones@rvgs.vak12ed.edu
-