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- Hard Disk Management with DOS 5, 3rd Edition by Dan Gookin
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- Now updated to include information on the newest version of DOS, this
- bestselling book remains the best source of tips and techniques available
- to general users who want to maximize the performance of their hard disks.
- Packed with valuable applications, utility programs, and management
- advice, this new edition describes how to:
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- ∙ Reorganize jumbled files and data into manageable units
- ∙ Use DOS batch files, menu systems and shells to aid in
- the everyday management of disk files
- ∙ Secure data from accidental loss, hard disk failure or
- unauthorized use
- ∙ Improve system performance with a variety of disk storage
- and access strategies
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- . . . and much more. Dan Gookin not only shows users how to survive
- disaster. such as disk crashes, memory wipeouts, and overloads--he
- thoroughly describes what steps can be taken to avoid them. In addition, a
- 5.25" disk with management utilities from PC-SIG is included to help
- readers boost their hard disk's performance. Readers can spend hundreds of
- dollars for disk management/utility software . . . and still not match the
- value of this revised and expanded edition.
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- Dan Gookin is a regular contributor to PC/Computing and Computer Buying
- World magazines. Also the host of a weekly radio talk show on computers,
- Gookin holds a degree in communications from the University of California
- at San Diego. He is the author of Windcrest's Advanced Batch File
- Programming--3rd Edition and Working with Magellan.
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- Hard Disk Management with DOS 5 -- 3rd Edition
- Order No. 4072 ∙ Available: March ∙ 424 pp., 124 illus.
- Paper $29.95 ISBN 0-8306-3520-3,
- Hard $39.95 ISBN 0-8306-3521-1
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- Database Design
- Applications of Library Cataloging Techniques
- by David L. Clark
-
- Combines concepts in database management with the standards used in library
- cataloging.
-
- BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--Professionals in all fields today are so flooded
- with data that many find it difficult to locate information when they need
- it. Database Design was written to help solve this problem. This
- outstanding book will allow frustrated information managers to regain
- control ova their files, so they can find the facts they need fast.
-
- David L. Clark shows how anyone can take advantage of the efficient
- standards and practices used in library cataloging, applying them to the
- creation and organization of all kinds of databases. Clark covers all
- major distributed database platforms and library cataloging standards:
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- ∙ PICK, R-BASE, and IN MAGIC database systems
- ∙ Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) methodology
- ∙ Anglo-American cataloging rules
- ∙ Library of Congress Subject Headings
- ∙ Data validation and normalization
- ∙ Record identification and categorization criteria
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- Clark explains how to use these elements in all phases of database
- development, from initial system set-up to daily operation. Readers will
- find step-by-step instructions that demonstrate several specific
- applications, including the management of warehouse inventories, photo and
- art collections, historical and statistical research, and more. With the
- clear guidance of Database Design, readers will be able to bring any
- database under strict control, and quickly get the information they need.
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- About the Author:
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- David L. Clark is the chairman of the History Computerization Project of
- the Los Angeles City Historical Society and the author of five books,
- including Programming in IBM PC BASIC and the PICK Database System.
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- TAB/McGraw-Hill ∙ Database Design: Applications of Library Cataloging
- Techniques Order No. 3443 ∙ Now Available ∙ 352 pp., with dust jacket ∙
- Hard $34.95 ISBN 0-8306-3443-6
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- The Information Broker's Handbook
- By Sue Rugge and Alfred Glossbrenner
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- Everything there is to know about becoming a successful information broker.
- Forward by Reva Basch, President, Association of Independent Information
- Professionals.
-
- The business of information brokering got its start in 1971 when Sue Rugge,
- an out-of-work librarian in the San Francisco area, decided to contract
- her research skills out to local businesses, consultants, and
- professionals who needed information on a given subject. Today, fee-based
- information retrieval has become a multi-million dollar industry utilizing
- virtually every conceivable medium for gathering data.
-
- Now, Rugge and PC telecommunications expert Alfred Glossbrenner team up on
- this one-of-a-kind volume--the definitive guide to starting and running a
- profitable information brokerage service. The authors provide an in-depth
- examination of all the search and retrieval options used by today's
- successful information brokers:
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- ∙ Online databases
- ∙ Electronic bulletin boards
- ∙ Special interest groups (SIGs) and forums
- ∙ Document delivery services
- . Conventional library and telephone research
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- The authors also address the all-important business end of information
- retrieval: establishing an office, purchasing hardware and software,
- marketing and selling information services, pricing and billing, and much
- more. And the appendices contain a comprehensive listing of resources,
- associations, trade shows, and software vendors, as well as sample forms
- and contracts that are included on disk.
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- In short, this volume provides aspiring information brokers with everything
- they need to get started, except the clients and Rugge and Glossbrenner
- offer more than a few helpful tips on how to find them as well.
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- Sue Rugge is widely recognized as "the first information broker,"
- cofounding the first company of its kind in 1971. She is also founder and
- former president of Information on Demand, a company she built from
- scratch into the second largest information brokerage in the U.S., with
- annual sales of more than $2 million. Today, Sue Rugge is principal of The
- Rugge Group, which provides research services to corporations and
- independent professionals. She is regarded as the nation's leading
- authority on the business aspects of information brokering and presents a
- seminar on "How to Make Money as an Information Broker." She served as
- president of the Association of Independent Information Professionals
- (AIIP), in 1988-89. The bestselling author of several computer books,
- Alfred Glossbrenner operates a successful shareware distribution business
- specializing in PC telecommunications software.
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- 5.25" disk of business forms included
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- Order No. 4104 ∙ APRIL ∙ WINDCREST ∙ 320 pp., 100 illus., 7" x 10" ∙ PAPER
- $29.95 (FPT) ISBN 0-8306-3797-4 HARD $39.95 ISBN 0-8306-3798-2 ∙ ($39.95
- Paper, $52.95 Hard CANADIAN)
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- TAB Books--Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0850
- 1-800-233-1128/FAX 717-794-2103
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