Norton Go Home (Revisited)

Ken Abrams kabra437 at pallas.athenanet.com
Fri Apr 19 03:36:28 AEST 1991


In article <21441 at lanl.gov> jlg at cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>
>I think that the point is that the Norton utilities don't rely on
>keeping deleted files in some "shadow" space.  Norton can sometimes
>fail to recover a file because its disk sectors have been reused.

Oops.  I think your DOS is showing!  NU for Unix does exactly that,
saves deleted files in a "Phantom" directory.  NU for PC/MS-DOS is
the one that tries to rebuild a file from it's left-over entries in
the FAT.  The two are quite different.


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