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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Norton Go Home (Revisited)
Message-ID: <1070@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 17:36:28 GMT
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In article <21441@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
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>I think that the point is that the Norton utilities don't rely on
>keeping deleted files in some "shadow" space.  Norton can sometimes
>fail to recover a file because its disk sectors have been reused.

Oops.  I think your DOS is showing!  NU for Unix does exactly that,
saves deleted files in a "Phantom" directory.  NU for PC/MS-DOS is
the one that tries to rebuild a file from it's left-over entries in
the FAT.  The two are quite different.


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