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From: tommie@psivax.UUCP (Tom Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Re: DOS 3.3 upgrade (IBM bashing)
Message-ID: <1786@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 12:50:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 11 12:50:39 1987
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In article <3524@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay) writes:
>Funny you should mention Disk Repair.  A friend had a bad disk, and nothing
>would read it.  We tried every utility.  Then we decided to try Disk Repair,
>eventhough we have never had a bit of luck with ANY package ever written
>by an IBMer.  To our surprise, the contents of the file appeared on the
>screen!  We were amazed.  Then, we were even more amazed that there was no
>option in Disk Repair to do anything with the data.  We could see it but
>we couldn't put it anywhere (like the other floppy drive).  We couldn't
>patch anything because some of the sectors on the floppy physically were
>bad.  So, we copied the data onto paper one sector at a time.

You could have saved yourself a lot of work by using one of the 
many programs that can do screen capture.  For example, SmartKey and
Memory Shift can both capture a text screen.

I guess this is kind of off the subject, huh?  Well, to get back on it,
...no I haven't found any IBM software that was much good.  But then, I
don't like their hardware either!
-- 
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