nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) (05/22/91)
Well, I ran the compatibility checker on my machine at home, and it said,
"don't run SUM Partition", and it claimed problems with a lot of the SUM-II
utilities, saying I needed 2.0.1. of the partition software and so on.
No problem, thought I, I'll just give Symantec UK a ring. Well, they don't
have a SUM-II version for 7.0. Not are they expecting one. Nor will they
say when one will become available. In fact, the tech. support guy seemed
to imply fairly definitely that there *isn't* a version of SUM-II for Sys7.0.
So, I turn to you, oh great Net. My assumption is that Symantec UK, being
a far-flung outpost here in Europe, don't know what they're talking about.
SUM-II is a well-known popular product, so there *must* be a 7.0-aware
version, right? Do I have to call Symantec trans-Atlantic to get some action
out of them? Or am I stuck with 6.0.7 until Symantec get around to updating?
I don't think they have much of an excuse, to be honest. 7.0 has been Beta
for centuries, hasn't it?
Nick.
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Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
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~~~ And also for teaching." ~~~PSTL-HJ@finou.oulu.fi (05/23/91)
Nick Rothwell claims in his article that SUM II does not
work on system 7. it does if your version is 2.0 international.
we have that working on IIci that runs on system 7.
the compatibility list is incorrect.
yours,
Heikki Jussila, Univ. of oulu Finland
email: pstl-hj@finou.oulu.fi (internet/earn)
pstl-hj@finou.bitnet (BITNET)boomer@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Rich Akerboom) (06/02/91)
In <11161@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes [from a far flung outpost in Europe]: >Well, I ran the compatibility checker on my machine at home, and it said, >"don't run SUM Partition", and it claimed problems with a lot of the SUM-II >utilities, saying I needed 2.0.1. of the partition software and so on. >No problem, thought I, I'll just give Symantec UK a ring. Well, they don't >have a SUM-II version for 7.0. Not are they expecting one. Nor will they [...] Perhaps the answer lies in Symantec's purchase of Norton. Since they now own both SUM and Norton Utilities for the Mac, perhaps they are going to combine them into one bigger and better Norton. Rich Akerboom -- Rich Akerboom Internet, etc.: boomer@eleazar.dartmouth.edu Sylvan Software UUCP: decvax!dartvax!eleazar!boomer P. O. Box 566 Telephone: (802) 649-2231 Norwich, VT 05055 USA