Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!husc6!m2c!umvlsi!umaecs!ssircar From: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Comments on COPY II PC Message-ID: <11309.273491c2@ecs.umass.edu> Date: 4 Nov 90 22:10:10 GMT References: <9917@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Lines: 27 In article , ralphs%halcyon.uucp@seattleu.edu writes: > kyung@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Kyung Lee) writes: > >> Just got a mail from Central Point Software, Inc. Stuf about their new >> release of COPYIIPC ver 6. I'm just curious on the net's concensus on >> this software. It's quite nice offer...$15 (plus ship/handling) > > If they are selling it for $15, buy it. If they're upgrading your 5.0 > for $15, do it. > > Although a commercial product, PC TOOLS is oftenpriced in the shareware > range, depending on your mail order habits, etc. 6.0 has one utility > that has saved my bacon more than once: DISKFIX, a put-the-trashed-disk- > back-together thing that un-corrupts FATS, fixes crosslinks, etc., all > rolled into one. Are we talking about COPY ][ PC or PC Tools? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Santanu Sircar BITNET: ssircar@umaecs.bitnet University of Massachusetts/Amherst INTERNET: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu |------------------------------------------------------------------------------| "A pig ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root around the tree. A crow remarked, `You should not do this. If you lay bare the roots, the tree will wither and die.' `Let it die,' said the pig. `Who cares so long as there are acorns?'" -"Animal Farm" by George Orwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------