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Old 2nd January 2007 | 18:57
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Mac the Knife

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From: Rochechouart, France
"Ghost 10 doesn't seem to offer the option of the various switches unfortunately. It's set up more as a "click here" job."

Few GUI (Graphical User Interface) apps these days expose the command-line switches that can be used to execute them from a console*, but they're often there, just hard to find. Very useful, since they frequently let you do things that have not been incorporated into the GUI and far faster. It appears that Ghost 10 does in fact have a CLI (Command Line Interface), with the switches documented in some pokey cormer of their website.

I think these - http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...hm&lg=en&ct=us
- apply to Ghost 10

*console - this means the command-line interface, like old-fashoned DOS - you know, the black screen with the C:/ prompt. Or [me@linuxbox me]$ _ ;)

As I said, I don't know Ghost, but I think that the -clone switches shown here - http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...98082413392025 - are the ones you need.

I'm not being intentionally obscure, but this is sometimes the only way to make computers do what YOU want, not what some cute interface thinks you might want.

Mac

Edited to add: Radified have what looks like a very comprehensive guide to Norton's Ghost here - http://ghost.radified.com/

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