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From: wilber@nunki.usc.edu (John Wilber)
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Subject: Re: Norton Utilties Shipped (But Still Buggy)
Summary: Bugs? What Bugs?
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Date: 30 Jul 90 19:25:24 GMT
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In article <19270@well.sf.ca.us> bmug@well.sf.ca.us (BMUG) writes:
>I have touched a shipping copy of Norton Utilities for the Mac at Computerware
>(MacOrchard) Berkeley.  Yesterday.  However, Steve Costa, our disk recovery
>guru, warns that it still can't recover some of his test disks.  Therefore,
>don't expect it to be perfect!

Oh come on, no software can fix ALL disk problems (some are hardware related 
and some are just plain unrecoverable problems).  Just because Disk Doctor
can't fix every disk in the world doesn't mean it has bugs.  The important 
issue is whether it fixes more disk problems than the alternatives.  My
experience has been that it does a *much* better job than the competition.

By the way, you should check your source to see if Steve was really running 
the final release of NUM.  Steve Costa has complained loudly in the past 
about problems with BETA versions of NUM.  He should know better than the 
complain about finding problems in beta-ware.  If it had no problems, it 
wouldn't be beta would it?