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From: takahash@ntmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Norton Utils and Excel
Message-ID: <1538@ntmtv.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 90 00:46:48 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom, Mtn. View, CA
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I've finally gotten a copy of the Norton Utilities for the Mac!!
It seems to work okay, except...

When running Microsoft Excel 1.5, I've run across the following
problems:
   1) Disk access seems to be alot slower.  (Actually may not be
       a problem...could be FileSaver doing something...not quite
       sure about this one yet).

   2) Chart files that used to run in Excel now seem to generate
       "Out of Memory" errors.  This message is random, and cannot
       be reliably reproduced.

   3) The Mac crashes randomly (ID=02).

Of the Norton Inits running, I have the FileSaver, the "Activity
Light", and the init that puts up options in Open Dialog boxes.
(Sure wish I could remember the names of all of them...)

As of this point, I haven't isolated the cause of these problems
yet, but I was wondering if anyone had already run into similar
problems using Norton Utils and Excel 1.5.

I hope the solution isn't to upgrade to Excel 2.2... :-(

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