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From: kinmonthprep@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: norton utilities trash xenix
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Date: 16 Jan 89 21:59:02 GMT
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Reply-To: kinmonthprep@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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I don't know where the balance of stupidity lies, but in any event, the
latest version of Norton is a hair trigger disaster waiting to happen
if you have MSDOS and Xenix on the same disk.  Apparently, ndd ("norton
disk doctor") does not bother to check whether a partion is actually
MSDOS or not.  With some options, it assumes everything on the disk
is MSDOS with fatal results for the Xenix partition.

I cannot give more detail because I'm not going to risk having to rebuild
a 70 meg system just to find exactly which command trashed the system.