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From: labc-1ic@web-1a.berkeley.edu (Willy S. Liao)
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Subject: Re: Norton Utilities $49 special offer & question
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Date: 18 Mar 91 21:52:11 GMT
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In article <47999@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
>Just got a "special offer, supplies limited" in the mail.
>Symantec is offering the Norton Utilities for $49.
>Call 1-800-343-4714, ext.712.  
>
>My question:  Norton seemed to have won the net.utilities
>battle hands-down a few months ago.  Is anybody aware of 
>a reason for the "fire sale"?  Problems with System 7.0?
>
>-- Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)
>-- 38 Chambers St.; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949

Well, I called Symantec because I was interested in this, but I found out
that Norton Utilities is not yet compatible with System 7.  It's not
their fault as far as I can tell; the extensions to the File Manager in
System 7 require a non-trivial amount of work to deal with.  Speed Disk
appears to operate somewhat alright under System 7, but I'm told that
Finder 7 now maps out bad sectors on the fly & that this may confuse
disk optimizers (don't know if that's the case with Speed Disk 1.0x).

At any right, Norton Disk Doctor will not run on a disk that has been
"touched" with System 7 (it displays a dialog), so don't bother getting
Norton Utils right now if you are a System 7 beta user.

Willy Liao
labc-1ic@web.berkeley.edu