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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Norton Go Home (Revisited)
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.174415.17429@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 91 17:44:15 GMT
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In article <21441@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>I think that the point is that the Norton utilities don't rely on
>keeping deleted files in some "shadow" space.

Yes they do.

>Norton can sometimes
>fail to recover a file because its disk sectors have been reused.

I believe you're thinking of the DOS version.  A file's disk sectors
are not made available for reuse until the a user-configured time
period has elapsed.

I'm amazed at the amount of misinformation people have on Norton
UnErase for UNIX.  It appears that most of the comments that appear
here are from people who have read magazine "reviews" or are
regurgitating falsehoods they've seen on the net.
-- 
John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)