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An earlier popular set of utilities for DOS and Windows from Symantec. They included a DOS or Windows shell as well as antivirus, file management, caching, backup, compression and data recovery...
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Definition: PC Tools
An earlier popular set of utilities for DOS and Windows from Symantec. They included a DOS or Windows shell as well as antivirus, file management, caching, backup, compression and data recovery utilities. PC Tools was originally developed by Central Point Software.
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