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- From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:23:16 GMT
- Subject: Re: What's awful about PC Tools 7.1?
- Message-ID: <5870130@pollux.svale.hp.com>
- Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION
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- References: <1992Aug12.195352.21838@tc.fluke.COM>
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- >(Jeff Meyer)
- >When I mentioned an chance to get a free copy of PC Tools 7.1, several
- >people blasted it on the net. Knowing little about the application, I had a
- >couple of quick questions:
- >
- >1) What's the major beef? Reliability? Compatability with other
- > applications?
-
- I have no beef. It's an excellent program. It will not do as much
- as Norton but covers 100% of what NORMAL users want. It's
- not a power user tool although it is very versatile and powerful.
-
- >2) The only parts of PC Tools 7.1 I was really interested in were their
- > Windows backup program, and disk recovery/checking software.
-
- Disk recovery works best with their Mirror program running as a TSR
- but that is not really needed for run of the mill file recovery and
- disk checking.
-
- Danny Low
- "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
- Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
- HP CPCD dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
-