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From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: What's in Your Fix-It Kit?
Keywords: tools, utilities, fix-it stuff
Message-ID: <6858@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 15:26:04 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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You've been there...the call comes in...HELP!  Something's wrong with this
dumb {computer|software|monitor}!  Since the afflicted party is some distance
away, your grab for your handy fix-it kit and take off...

But what's in your kit?  I'd like to informally poll the NetMind to find out
what other support folks bring to the scene of the crime, as it were.
I know I'll learn something, and I'll post a summary to the net after a week
or so.  For starters, my little black bag has...

   Your basic zipper pouch tool kit 
   A write-protected diskette with John McAfee's SCAN and CLEANP programs
   Three 360K diskettes with working copies of Norton Utils, V4.5
   A copy of Central Point's MI.COM to peek into memory usage
   A copy of PC SHELL for file and subdirectory manipulation
   A copy of Disk Manager
   A copy of an AT setup program, origin unknown

Of course, I leave the original disks back at the ranch and work with
disposable copies, which has saved me more than once!  What else do you
folks bring along?

"Moby" Dick O'Connor                          ** The only difference between
Washington Department of Fisheries            ** a lazy man on a riverbank
Olympia, Washington  98504                    ** and a fisherman is a pole
Internet Mail: djo7613@hardy.u.washington.edu ** and a length of string.