Advice For The Standalone User - Xerox 1186 User Manual

INTRODUCTION
Advice For the Standalone User
If your 1186 is a standalone system, the following
considerations are important:
Back-up your critical files. In a very short time you
will accumulate a large number of files on your
rigid disk. Back up the most important ones on
floppy disks. You can always reload software into
your machine using the floppies that were
provided. But if you have created a critical file,
saved it on your rigid disk but not on floppies, you
run the risk of losing the file forever if you
experience an unrecoverable failure of the rigid
disk.
Two Library packages are useful in backing up your
files; the Copyfiles package and the File Browser
package: Please consult the Lisp Library Packages
manual for information on these packages.
Remember to set the time. Every time you log out
of Interlisp you lose the time setting. Saving files
when you are working in a sysout without the time
set is a risky business. Always perform a (SETIIM E)
when you first begin an Interlisp-D session (see
Appendix A-Setting theTime).
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