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From: a563@mindlink.UUCP (Dave Kirsch)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: BACKUP PROGRAMS WITH COMPRESSION
Message-ID: <3485@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 90 14:40:41 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <613@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>
> Posted: 10 Oct 90 13:08:46 GMT
> 
> Person: derek
> 
> ESR@SLACVM.BITNET (Ed Russell) writes:
> >I like PCTOOLS vers 6.0.  It is fast, allows a choice of compression
> schemes,
> >and allows incremental backups to continue on the last disk.  There are
> >other backup programs around that will do the same thing but together with
> >the other things packaged in PCTOOLS, it is a great buy.
> 
> I borrowed a copy of PCTOOLS, installed it on a RAM disk and tried it out.
> I didn't like it at all. ANd I certainly didn't have enough room to put it
> on my hard disk. Norton 3.0 and 4dos are a far better (from space/utility)
> although I admit PCTOOLS does have a few things I like, but not to spend all
> that and have the disk space used up.

PCTools is even nicer though.  All I use from it is COMPRESS, MIRROR and
PCBACKUP/PCRESTORE (I can't stand PC-Shell and their Desktop is brain dead).
So, only those files exist on my hard drive, I nuked everything else in the
PCTools directory with a simple 4DOS command:
EXCEPT (COMPRESS.* MIRROR.* PCBACKUP.* PCRESTOR.*) DEL *.*

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