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From: dpalmans@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Daniel Palmans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Norton SD is STUPID!
Message-ID: <51050004@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 21 Jan 91 23:59:31 GMT
References: <OTTO.91Jan11130923@tukki.jyu.fi>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> Uh, I've been running the 5.0 version of SpeeDisk for a while now, and
> it hasn't moved any of my files.  Admittedly, my DOS uses MSDOS.SYS
> and IO.SYS, but SD still sees them with the HIDDEN attribute and
> refuses to move them.
> 
> Are you sure you didn't unhide the files, or remove the SYSTEM
> attribute?  It's quite possible that SD doesn't have the filenames
> hardcoded in; instead, it just doesn't move anything that's hidden or
> system.  (That's actually a better algorithm, since it's more flexible
> and not as DOS-dependant.)
YES I'm absolutely sure these files were hidden and marked as system.
When I called Norton On-line support (after A VERY LONG WAIT....) they
acknowledge problems with *some* TSR's....
As mentionned before the only tsr running at that time was Norton Commander !

Daniel Palmans