From: "Nicholas R LeRoy" <nleroy AT norland DOT com>
Message-Id: <9705280832.ZM8790@dopey>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 08:32:08 -0500
In-Reply-To: dj-admin@delorie.com
        "~OD: Norte versus DEFRAG" (May 28,  8:13am)
References: <9705281313 DOT AA25862 AT norsun DOT norland DOT com>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Norte versus DEFRAG
Cc: ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net
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> At 02:38 AM 5/28/97 EDT, you wrote:
> >I just had a very nasty problem with Norton Utilities's Calibrate and lost
> >about half the files on my disk. I've never had any problem with Calibrate
> >before, and I'm wondering whether there's an incompatibility between
> >OpenDOS and Calibrate. This is just a guess, but you might keep it in mind
> >before running Calibrate.
> >
>
> Why don't you try DEFRAG?
>
> I installed OpenDOS on my old 386 (I also have a 286 and the 486dx2 66
> which I use mostly) and I then ported over DEFRAG from my DOS 7 to the
> OpenDOS directory and DEFRAG work just fine.  By the way I have tested
> OpenDOS extensively and it works just great.  But I am a little scared to
> put in in my 486.
>
> Anyway, DEFRAG works good.  I threw out my Norton Utilities long ago.

M$'s Defrag is, in fact, Norton's old 'speedisk'.  If you pay attention
when you start defrag, it comes up and reports:
   Copyright 1988 - 1993 Symantec Corporation
M$ has been licensing it from them for several years.

-Nick

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