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Subject: Re: Utilities?
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.084413.13025@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 91 08:44:13 GMT
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In article <1300058@hpgrla.gr.hp.com> kirkr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Kirk Rothe) writes:
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>>where I want to get some utilities for Windows 3.  I'm interested in things
>>like an undeleter and/or rescuer, a volume fixer, a locater (preferably one
>>that will be able to locate items within files, a screensaver, etc.  It seems
>>that I've pretty much narrowed to field down to Becker Tools (v.2) and HDC
>>File Apps (along with their First Apps as well).  Becker is slightly more
>>expensive than File Apps, but if you add First Apps, then the HDC pair is
>>more expensive.  I figure I might be able to pick up individual utility files
>>here and there, but at this point I think it is preferable to get a package.
>>Does anybody have any recommendations? specifically about these packages, or
>>about others.
>>(The Jan 1991 issue of PC Computing has a nice overview of these things, but
>>I've found it is always informative to hear from non-professional users.)
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>I have been using Becker Tools for about a month now and I'm not 
>impressed.  Even though there are a ton of features and tools in 
>this program, it appears that yet another software company has 
>attempted to make file I/O as ugly, complex, and slow to use as
>possible. I don't know how much we paid for it, but I don't use it
>much.
>
>Kirk Rothe
>
>"Give me DOS prompt or give me death"
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> 

I have been using File F/X from ThreadZ for little over a month and I find
is very useful. It smooth in its interface and also fast in the disk operations
like undelete and move and lots of other things. I won it in a drawing at a
conference so I don't know the price but i have heard it is not very expensive.

Gunjan Bhow
gunjan@garnet.berkeley.edu