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- Learn DOS Guaranteed! 2nd Edition by RICHARD P. CADWAY
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- A logical, step-by-step beginner's guide packed with quick-start tips for
- using all versions of DOS and DR DOS
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- Features special lay-flat binding for easy use
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- BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA--A lighthearted alternative to the cryptic DOS manual
- and all those dry, technical user's guides now on the market, Windcrest's
- Learn DOS-- Guaranteed!--2nd Edition is the perfect learning tool for
- anyone who is new to DOS and looking for an easy-to-read, bare-bones guide
- to system operation.
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- "Even the best DOS books do little more than rephrase the manual in
- friendlier, more elegant terms," said Windcrest Computer Acquisitions
- Editor Stephen Moore. "For a lot of users, they're still too intimidating.
- Richard Cadway has written a very accessible, uncomplicated book aimed at
- computer users who want to know just what they need to know lo get their
- work done."
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- Now updated to cover DOS 5 and DR DOS 6, Learn DOS Guaranteed--2nd Edition
- concentrates exclusively on basic hardware installation and the commands
- DOS users must understand in order to get started. With a clear,
- easy-to-read writing style and hands-on examples, Cadway describes how
- to:
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- * Hook up and use system components
- * Format a hard drive and load DOS
- * Identify installation and executable programs
- * Make, change, and remove directories
- * Change disk drives
- * Create, copy, and delete files
- * Back up files on a hard drive
- * Modify AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
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- "Learn DOS--Guaranteed!--2nd Edition is a set of bite-size tutorial
- lessons, well paced, with extensive review and repetition, on the DOS
- commands that everybody needs," said Moore. "It's an approach to DOS that
- Cadway has developed over years as a computer consultant and trainer,
- teaching a wide variety of users. It's simple and it works. With this
- outstanding guide, Cadway lays a solid foundation upon which readers Call
- build a career with computers--while saving them the weeks or months of
- frustration they would endure with other DOS hooks.
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- Richard P. Cadway is an independent computer consultant and trainer who
- specifies, assembles, and sells microcomputer systems to individuals and
- businesses. He also specializes in end-user training in system
- operations.
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- Windcrest/McGraw-Hill - Learn DOS Guaranteed!--2nd Edition Order No. 4159 -
- Available: May 1992 - 240 pp., 23 illus., 7" x 10", with Ota binding;
- Paper $16.95 ISBN 0-8306-3078-0
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- TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0850
- 1-800-233-1128 -- Fax 717-794-2103
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