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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Norton SD is STUPID!
Message-ID: <16u4V1w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 21 Jan 91 04:49:59 GMT
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dpalmans@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Daniel Palmans) writes:
> I was satisfied with this program until I used the new version 5.0 !
> This new version actually moved my ibmio and ibmsys files !!!!!!!!!!!

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.)


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