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From: wordproc
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 19:49

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/* ---------- "RE: hard disk de-fragmenter" ---------- */

> I strongly disagree with the use of PCTools. One late night as my bbs ran its
> timed event, pctools decided to totally screw up the entire users-file. There
> was no apparent reason for this act, no breaks or power-inturrupts, and the
> dos error level was gnarley! If you value your disk's contents- just say no
> to PCTools!
>
> However, I highly recommend the Norton Utilities Advanced Edition 4.50
>
> Mark Solsman

I use NU's Speed Disk disk optimizer on a fairly regular basis and it truly
is outstanding, at least on my 286/20MHz machine with a 110-Meg hard drive
set up as a single C: partition.  It really is very fast, as well, and has
worked flawlessly for me.

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              Marcus Clenney   ___    ___  /___  ___/ ________   / 
      U. of Central Florida   /   |  /   |    / /    / ______/  /
 Dept. of Computer Science   / /| | / /| |   / /    / /        /
       Orlando, FL  32816   / / | |/ / | |  / /    / /_____   /
 wordproc@ucf-cs.ucf.edu   /_/  |___/  |_| /_/    /_______/  /
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