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From: werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: WARNING: Symantec Utilities ('SUM') trashes partitions!!!
Message-ID: <2908@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 88 12:17:47 GMT
References: <5579@dasys1.UUCP> <4464@fluke.COM>
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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In article <5579@dasys1.UUCP> alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
> On a Mac II with a clean system 4.2, unifinder, and three inits (Suitcase,
> PramFix, and the Partition INIT in question), this DA destroyed partitions
> which I had created only moments after I threw out the other copies of my
> files. This is a 100% reproducible error: After mounting any partition,
> ANY FURTHER ATTEMPTS TO MOUNT ANY PARTITION WILL DESTROY THAT PARTITION
> IMMEDIATELY, WITHOUT ANY NOTICE.

while I sympathize with the anguish induced by losing a hard-disk, this
article is so full of "bad vibes" and so incomplete in information (no
version INFO of INITs), and so invalid a test (why didn't you try with a
plain Apple system, i.e. no additional INITs), that the combination of
this did not make me feel even like responding - much less to bring it
to the attention of the author(s) of SUM (with whom I'd like to stay
friends after all).

With the attitude Alexis displays here, I'd not even give him the phone
number to try his luck himself.

I just thought, that Alexis should know that YOU CAN SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE
FOOT - even here on the net .....

>  the programmer
> responsible for this is utterly irresponsible, incompetent, or both. I
> hope that the programmer gets another job in another industry soon, because
> if he (or she) ever works again, it will endanger more people!

	I'd defend your freedom of speech to say that - but YOU deserve
	to suffer the consequences of a lawsuit for "defamation"...

	as far as I am concerned, the reputation that just got destroyed
	here is the one of the poster of such irresponsible public
	utterings, Mr. Alexis Rosen, who with such an article, not only
	tarnishes SUM and all people and companies associated with it,
	but also the site (dasys1.uucp) he himself is associated with
	by virtue of posting from it.

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