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From: paul@steven.COM (paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Ehman HD drives
Summary: Thoughts on PC MacTools...
Message-ID: <51@steven.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 89 18:03:47 GMT
References: <44660716.16321@apollo.COM>
Organization: Sierra Geophysics Inc., Kirkland, Wa.
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In article <44660716.16321@apollo.COM>, ron_b@apollo.COM (Ronald Buttiglieri) writes:
> called "PC tools Mac". Looks like it has everything I'm looking for in a disk
> utility package (from fast backups to data recovery to disk management). Haven't
> tried any yet, but the manual reads as being very thorough.

PC MacTools is good program in several areas, but not in others.

Their disk copying routines are excellent, but the MacTools has a few
problems.  I crashed a hard disk and used verify disk, which failed to
find the two bad sectors that Disk Express found.  Using the sector editor
to go to the two bad sectors worked fine, but It would tell me which file
they were in.   That is not really a problem, but lack of a nice feature.
Still it would be nice if would search the entire disk like their Find File

Find File is really nice.  It can also find text in Pagemaker and Word files
not saved in text only format.  Nice!

The backup program is really stupid.  Unlike everyone else where you run the
backup off the floppy, theirs must come off the disk you are backing up.
It also has some bad quirks.  The overwrite command doesn't work, it sticks
a backup file that fits onto what disk space is left.  If you have it
erase the disks as you back up make sure that it is set for 800K disks.
Otherwise it formats the disk to whatever it was.  In my case I was
reusing some old 400K disks from 3 years ago.

I haven't tried the rest of their stuff.