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- The excellent program AUTOMENU.COM has been changed slightly to allow the
- creation of a program called AUTOBACK.COM. It uses DOS commands to use the
- program backup.com to back up files from a hard disk to disk drive A:.
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- To use it you will need to change the name of backup.com to dobackup.com and
- you also need to provide the path to allow access to all of your directories.
- You will need to read the DOS manual on how to set up your path if you have
- not already done so. It also uses a public domain program "superdirectory"
- named sd.com and is included in the library. I would suggest that you spend
- some time to organize your files on the hard disk. I use Norton utilities to
- alphabetize the directories and run a check on the hard disk using disktest
- prior to doing a backup. Be sure to erase all of the *.bak files.
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- Be sure when you are doing a backup that you have enough floppies formatted.
- My disk requires 22 floppies to backup the entire disk. If you don't have
- them formatted ahead of time, you must leave the program by hitting control c
- and then start again.
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- I would also suggest that you backup your data disks daily on separate
- floppies, as I have encountered a bug in either backup or restore that will
- not allow you to replace your backup files on the hard disk. The backup files
- are will not allow you to access them any other way that I know of.
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- I hope this program will be of help to you.