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From: kmcvay@oneb.UUCP (Ken McVay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is 4DOS? also Defragmentizers...
Summary: One man's DOG is another man's drag?
Message-ID: <1143@oneb.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 90 18:21:54 GMT
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I haven't used DOG since early 1987, but certainly never had any bad
experiences with it - I found it (STILL find it) the most versatile of
all the optimizers available, and also (sigh) the slowest. The version
I once used permitted very specific placement of each and every file on
the system, and operated reliably time after time.

As the operator of several bulletin board systems, I optimize daily -
sometimes several times - there is no other way to maintain speed and
efficiency. Until recently, I used Golden Bow's VOPT, simply because it
was by far the fastest of all the available packages...depending upon the
mail flow on any given day, for instance, Vopt would require about
5-6 minutes to optimize 169 megs of data (386/16, Miniscribe 6128 and
3425 running with a Perstor 180 controller). I still include a copy of
the Vopt package with every system I install.

Recently, however, I switched my dos system to SCSI, and Vopt wouldn't
recognize the drive, so I switched to Norton's SD, which, although
grossly slow, does get the job done, and runs (like Vopt) within a
batch file.

I guess the point of all this is that even though you may not see the
need for optimizing your system, many of us recognize that it's
a neccesity if we wish to maintain speed and efficiency, and, on some
systems, mandatory.     

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