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# RP/M Utilities: PRMPIP

You should always make a back-up or archive copy of your favorite or most-often-used programs. I know that, after a few times of having to do the programs all over again, I now am making back-up copies to everything that I record or write. “Once burned” is enough of a lesson for me to learn. When you need to make a copy of a certain program using the 2068, many times it is easy and other times it is not. I have, many times, used the TAPE-TO-TAPE program, by Larkin Electronics, featured here in early 1987. I have been able to use this program on many Spectrum programs as well. If I could not figure out how to get the program to ‘copy’, then I used G.A. 007 for Spectrum programs, or the HEADER READER or CAT from Customized Mscript. Once using the the HEADER or CAT, I was able to stop the program, enter the appropriate commands, and “save” the program to another tape for daily usage.