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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: unmoveble blocks in Norton Speed disk
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Date: 30 May 91 16:15:38 GMT
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jta@locus.com (JT Anderson) writes:

>I don't know if this is true for the current version of Norton 
>Speed Disk, but it used to think that the Windows program MSDOS.EXE
>was an unmoveable file.  (MSDOS.EXE is the MS-DOS Executive for Windows
>1.x and 2.x.  It is included with Windows 3, but rarely used.)

...but the copy of MSDOS.EXE which came with Windows 286/386 was a
dummy file which did not look like a real .EXE structure.  The copy 
you get with Windows 3 is a gen-u-ine executable Windows app.  Norton
Speed Disk was apparently set up to not move invalid .EXE files because
some programs used them for security.

Incidentally, the MSDOS.EXE file in WIN3 can be added to a menu (it has
its own icon of a 5-1/4" disk) and provides much of the functionality of
the File Manager with significantly less overhead.  I keep both in my
MAIN display, choosing whichever is appropriate for what I'm doing.

Joe