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quimby@madoka.its.rpi.edu (Tom Stewart) writes:

>>I fail to understand how anyone can afford to have a PC and yet not
>>afford to buy Norton Utilities (current version 5.0).  It should be the
>>first thing you buy along with DOS when you get a system.  No need to
>>think about it.

>Many people, myself included, would much rather have a copy of Mace
>utilities than Norton.  Mace doesn't have as many small utilities, but
>the recovery tools are more complete, and much more reliable.  (The 
>current version might not, but older versions of Disk Doctor sometimes
>actually did more damage than good to crashed HD's.)  

I'd rather stick to Norton Utilities V4.5 than upgrade to V5.0 The newer versionhas less executables since they bunched up the programs into larger programs
and that means less files but larger programs. NCD, for one, has more than
doubled in size. The 4.5 NCD works fine in my DESQVIEW DOS window but the V5.0
NCD crashes the whole computer.

If you have V4.5 and plan to or have upgraded to V5.0, don't relegate the
older version to your floppies. To be fair, there are quite a few useful
programs in V5.00. Norton Disk Doctor II seems to be an improvement over the
older version.


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