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From: smsmith@hpuxa.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith)
Subject: Re: Disk deframgmentation software - SUMMARY
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In article <10390@pitt.UUCP> jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes:
>I received many recommendations for a disk defragmenter.  These include
>SD (Norton), COMPRESS (PCTOOLS DELUX 6.0), DOG (Disk ORganizer,
>shareware), REFORM (shareware), and OPTUNE (Gazelle Software,
>shareware).
>
>I downloaded DOG and OPTUNE.  The DOG documentation warned that it does
>not handle the 32-bit FATs of DOS 4.x.  As this is what I have, I
                               ^^^^^^^
>scratched it from my list...

Hmmmm....  I just downloaded DOG two days ago, and *I* didn't
read anything about incompatibility with DOS 4.x.  In fact,
here are a couple of excerpts from DOG's documentation:

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Disk OrGanizer, version 3.01, March 12, 1991

   This is the first public release of Disk OrGanizer version 3.

   This version is compatable with DOS version 4 and 5.

   EMS memory will be used, if available, for large disks.

   Disk OrGanizer will work on drives as large as
   4,095 Megabytes (4,294,180,868 bytes).

        Disk  OrGanizer  has  been  tested with MS-DOS 2.10, 3.01, 3.10,
        3.30, 4.01 and 5.0 on logical drives as large as 600  megabytes.
        It is believed that Disk OrGanizer will operate on any MS/PC-DOS
        disk.

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I have DOS 4.01 and a 200 MEG IDE drive, with 3 logical drives (C:,
D:, and E:).  I have not used DOG yet, so SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME
MORE INFO BEFORE I TRASH MY DRIVE with this program.

Steve Smith
smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu