Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!nic.stolaf.edu!uafhp!mamos From: mamos@uafhp.uark.edu (Mark _E_ Amos) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Asking advice on Nortons 5.0 Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 91 23:29:02 GMT References: <12385.27b6f0b4@ecs.umass.edu> Sender: news@acc.stolaf.edu Organization: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Lines: 21 ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!) writes: >Can someone who has Nortons 5.0 tell me if it's worth buying? I currently have >PC Tools 6.0 and saw an advertisement in which I can get the Nortons upgrade for I own Norton 5.0 and prefer it over PCTools. There is a program similar to Spinrite called CALIBRAT and has at least one advantage over Spinrite - it works on my IDE drive.... (IDE drives have a built in read cache that will cause Spinrite to puke). I have not experienced any trouble with Norton 5.0 at all. -- ============================================================================== Mark _E_ Amos | University of Arkansas Computer Science Engineering mamos@uafhp.uark.edu | mea1@engr.uark.edu | (emphasise the Computer Engineering please) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Man's mind, when stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension." -Oliver Wendell Holmes ==============================================================================