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Volume 6, Issue 5
1 May 1990
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Research Article| May 01 1990

Making Life Easier In The DOS Environment: Hard Disk Facts And PKZIP Available to Purchase

Serafim Halkias;
Serafim Halkias
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2377-620X
Print ISSN: 8756-5196
© MCB UP Limited
1990
OCLC Micro (1990) 6 (5): 12–24.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003628

Offers advice to librarians using DOS‐based machines on how to cope with hard disk failure and on the best ways to back up data. Gives instructions on an alternative to backup programmes, which is to use a data compression programme such as PKZIP.

Keywords:
Backups, Computer hardware, Computer security, Computer software, Data protection
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