Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!aqdata!sullivan From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Norton utilities for UNIX (was: drawtree for Unix/Sun/curses?) Message-ID: <1989Dec6.235050.26453@aqdata.uucp> Date: 6 Dec 89 23:50:50 GMT References: <11758@smoke.BRL.MIL> Organization: aQdata, Inc. Western Region -- San Dimas, CA Lines: 20 I missed the original posting: > In article <11976@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Saligrama Subbarao) writes: >> Here is a question I have been wanting to ask for a long time but >> always forgot to. WHY doesn't someone make a whole NORTON UTILITES >> for UNIX? I mean, it is SO easy to unerase files in MS-DOS. If UNIX >> is a superior operating system, why hasn't someone come up with a >> qu command to unerase files, an ncd to change directories and some of >> the other goodies we get with the Norton Utilities 4.5 Advanced >> Edition? I believe the people at Norton _are_ working on utilities for Unix. >> -Is UNIX really superior ??? Is DOS? DOS doesn't come with Norton utilities. It's separate, eh? -- Michael Sullivan uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan aQdata, Inc. San Dimas, CA