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From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
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Subject: Re: Norton Go Home (Revisited)
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Date: 19 Apr 91 17:23:25 GMT
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> 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.

Yes, I don't have NU on any UNIX that I have available to me.  Certainly
it is not on my workstation.

My point was, however, that regardless of how the tool works internally,
the end user only cares about the result.  He doesn't _want_ to have to
hand-weed the phantom garbage pail.  What he wants (or, at least, what
I want) is to be able to delete a file and forget it.  Only when I later
decide that I accidentally discarded something valuable do I even want
to be aware of the existence of the "phantom" garbage backup.  The other
contributors to this thread were claiming that NU was unnecessary because
UNIX let you do all this stuff manually - and that's exactly what I _don't_
want to do.  Nor do I want to have to take time to write a shell script
to do it (which will, of course, be incompatible with anyone else's 
script to perform a similar function).

J. Giles