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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