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From: wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Miniscribe 3085 on Dos3.3?
Message-ID: <[1063.5]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 05:00:06 GMT
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We've standardized on Compaq DOS 3.31.  Your allocation block size on a disk
with 70-80 megs formatted will be 4k, which is quite acceptable.  Compaq
3.31  will not have the memory headaches or incompatibility problems you
find with 4.0, but there *are* a few (very few) utilities that will not work
correctly because they twiddle the FAT directly.  Norton's utilities were
the worst about doing that, but a new release has solved that problem.

I certainly wouldn't choose my operating system based on the few maverick
programmers who refuse to follow the rules.  In fact, we switched to PCTOOLS
when Norton was still having problems and never went back.  PCTOOLS is
better.  If the good ole public domain NSWP (transplanted from the CP/M
world!) can handle the new file systems, you gotta wonder about
"professional" packages that can't!

[ For those of you about to flame me about the depth of Norton's
capabilities, I suggest that A) you check out PCTOOLS and B) explain why
Norton's new stuff works if the old approach was really necessary ]

Bill Kuykendall
...ddsw1!point!wek