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- From: franke@andrej.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Franke)
- Subject: Re: PCTools DeLuxe -- upgrade to 7.1?
- Message-ID: <franke.715416189@andrej>
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- Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik / RWTH Aachen
- References: <ETNBKKC.92Sep1175244@pluto.etn.ericsson.se>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 06:43:09 GMT
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- etnbkkc@hisoy.etn.ericsson.se (Karlsen Bjorn) writes:
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- >I got an offer to upgrade my PCTools DeLuxe from 6.0 to 7.1
- >Why should I upgrade?
- >Why should I not upgrade?
- >I'm using (mostly) CPBackup, Compress and DiskFix.
-
- Here is a >>Why not<<:
- CPBACKUP 7.1 has a serious bug in the error detection.
- I don't know whether this bug is also in 6.0.
-
- To explain this, here my posting from comp.os.ms-windows.apps:
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- >Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- >From: franke@andrej.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Franke)
- >Subject: Re: What's awful about PC Tools 7.1?
- >Date: 26 Aug 92 15:17:39 GMT
-
- [...]
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- CAUTION: ** DO NOT RELY ON CPBACKUPS ERROR DETECTION/CORRECTION **
-
- Some time ago, I performed the following test with PCTOOLS 7.1
- (with the DOS Version of CPBACKUP):
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- 1) Back up some files on a 5 1/4" Floppy.
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- 2) Use a magnet to make a small part of the floppy unreadable.
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- 3) Try to restore the files to a different directory:
- CPBACKUP retries and retries and retries to read some track
- on the floppy.
- After some time the Message Box "Restore Complete"
- NO ERROR MESSAGE AT ALL.
-
- 4) Compare original with restored directory:
- All files are there with correct time/date/size.
- But: the files where the retries occured were currupt!!!
-
- Perhaps someone at CP hears me...
-
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- Regards,
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- Christian Franke
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