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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:11:17 -0400
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
From: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Re: Norte versus DEFRAG
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At 04:23 AM 5/29/97 -0400, you wrote:

>Norton Calibrate is a low level format utility for older hard
>disks.  It is not a defragmentation tool.  It is similar in
>feature to SpinRite (I believe that Norton acquired SpinRite).
>
>
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Mike:

Your statement above maybe techinically correct, but I am surprised because
I used for defragmentation for  several years and it looked like it was
doing what DEFRAG now does -- at least it appeared that way to me.

Could the Norton defragger have had another name?  I THOUGHT it was
Calibrate.  Maybe I am thinking of another tool that came with Norton
Utilities that was a defragger.

Are you sure that Calibrate was not intended for defragmentation?  Back
then, I had no trouble with Calibrate, but later I found that I had no need
for any of the other utilites because better ones came along later.
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Ralph Proctor
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