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- From: vito@well.sf.ca.us (Andris Paul Vitols)
- Subject: Re: Mac Tools Woes and Annoyances
- Message-ID: <BtGzv4.GBC@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <BsyK6K.1Fp@well.sf.ca.us> <1018@kopasker.is>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 04:16:15 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1018@kopasker.is> brl@kopasker.is (Bjorgvin Runar Leifsson) writes:
- >vito@well.sf.ca.us (Andris Paul Vitols) writes:
- >
- >
- >>I tried out Central Point's Mac Tools on two Macs today, one at work and one
- >>at home. I found two interesting things:
- >
- >> 1.) My hard disk has 2 partitions, partitioned with FWB's Hard Disk
- >>Toolkit. One partition is password protected and one isn't. CP Disk Fix
- >>couldn't analyze either of them even when both were mounted on the desktop!
- >
- >What is FWB? I have an SE20 at home with two hard drives. MacTools 2 had no
- >problem analyzing them both. At work I use a IIci with 80 meg disk, on
- >which 30 megs are set aside for SoftAT. No problem there either.
- >
- >> 2.) None of the CP MacTools utilities would launch with Norton
- >>Filesaver 2.0 installed on the machines!
- >
- >All CP MT utils. launched easily on both machines with NF 2.0 installed.
- >
- >>I used a IIsi and an LCII, both with sys 7.0 and tuneup 1.1.1
- >
- >Both machines are with sys 7.0 and tuneup (older version than 1.1.1).
- >
- >The only point I'm trying to make is how the same software sometimes can
- >behave differently on different machines. Don't know why but perhaps inits,
- >CDevs and so on are partly involved.
- >
- >Bjorgvin R. Leifsson
- >brl@kopasker.is
-
-
- FWB is a company that makes Hard Disk Toolkit, a disk partitioning and
- driver enhancing product. I called CP and they said they are working on the
- FWB problem and the FileSaver 2.0 problem "doesn't surprise" them.
-
- I would like to know of other experiences w/FileSaver 2.0 vs. MacTools.
-