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From: howardl@wb3ffv.ampr.org ( WB3FFV)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Norton Bugs (was: Sound driver ?)
Message-ID: <3812@wb3ffv.ampr.org>
Date: 29 Jan 91 00:30:26 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.055729.622@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Advanced Business Solutions - Baltimore , MD
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From article <1991Jan28.055729.622@chinet.chi.il.us>, by pdg@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Guthrie):
> 
> I just wish that the companies doing this package for Norton could
> get the Unerase capability working as well as the speaker.  We went
> from 2 filesystems running this on an ISC system to taking it
> off altogether because of kernal panics and hangs directly
> attributable to this package, and then the same on AT&T Unix.
> The same story from two other local sites.  It is completely
> unusable.  
> -- 
> Paul Guthrie


Humm, I am wondering if that many people are really having problems with
the Norton Utilities?  I have been using the Norton System V Utilities
here on my 486 based ISC 2.2 UNIX system since it's initial release, and
I don't believe it has caused the machine to die yet.  I at one point 
had a panic, but I believe it was due to an insufficient number of streams
buffers in the host based IP package, as it didn't happened before I put IP
online, and has not happened since increasing the streams buffers.  What
problems are people seeing with Norton (panic messages, etc..), as I can
at least note it and keep an eye out.  I generally find that norton works
very nice here, as I hve fine tuned the rulesets, and can run through with
purge and see just what it is keeping around just incase (which I hope I
never need to use :-).  Well that is about all I have here, and was very
suprised to see the bad reports.

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