harv@harvs.UUCP (Patrick L. Harvey) (04/07/91)
I bought a copy of the Norton utils for the Mac, thinking they would be really nice - since the PC stuff is. Of course it does not work very well on the fx. One of the nice features is that in every file open dialog box it gives you "sort by name kind size etc." and "duplicate, new folder, find file, etc." which is nice. But it broke the double-click to open on one of my applications. Since it was only one, though, I suspect the application. The rescue disk won't boot on an fx, it doesn't install correctly, and one of the dialog boxes has a button that does nothing at all. I called tech support and it is a toll call that kept me on hold for quite some time before letting me record a message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick L. Harvey | Home: romed!harvs!harv@asuvax.eas.asu.edu VLSI Technology, Inc. | Work: vlsisj!phx!harv@decwrl.dec.com (602) 752-6151 | Don't understand anything I read, but sure is fun getting all this mail.
klefstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sue Klefstad) (04/08/91)
harv@harvs.UUCP (Patrick L. Harvey) writes: >The rescue disk won't boot on an fx....... Make an fx-bootable disk and copy the rescue disk contents to it. -- - Sue Klefstad Ill. Natural History Survey klefstad@uiuc.edu
alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) (04/09/91)
klefstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sue Klefstad) writes: >harv@harvs.UUCP (Patrick L. Harvey) writes: >>The rescue disk won't boot on an fx....... Alternatively, you can boot from a "good, clean" booter and then run the rescue disk. The problem is that an 800K floppy just doesn't have the room for 6.0.x ("x">=fx requirements) AND NUM. So it doesn't 'quite' work when you boot up. Sorry 'bout that... I guess Norton could have put in an HD booter for machines what don't work with NUM. Or Marvin (author of NUM) could sweat 40K out of NUM so it'll all fit on an 800K. (Doubtless he'd love too--but he's been busy working on new new features and bug swats. Which hit everyone, y'know?) The Directory Assistance problem (for that's the name of the CDEV that gives you sorted filenames, searching, etc., inside the standard file requester) is more serious. Make sure you report it to Tech. Support so it can be fixed. Norton is pretty good at fixing things; they're just a bit more busy than they should be. Sometimes you must keep on them. Long-time beta-tester and user, Alex Pournelle I bought a copy of the Norton utils for the Mac, thinking they would be really nice - since the PC stuff is. Of course it does not work very well on the fx. One of the nice features is that in every file open dialog box it gives you "sort by name kind size etc." and "duplicate, new folder, find file, etc." which is nice. But it broke the double-click to open on one of my applications. Since it was only one, though, I suspect the application. The rescue disk won't boot on an fx, it doesn't install correctly, and one of the dialog boxes has a button that does nothing at all. I called tech support and it is a toll call that kept me on hold for quite some time before letting me record a message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick L. Harvey | Home: romed!harvs!harv@asuvax.eas.asu.edu VLSI Technology, Inc. | Work: vlsisj!phx!harv@decwrl.dec.com (602) 752-6151 | Don't understand anything I read, but sure is fun getting all this mail. -- Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs, others ...elroy!grian!alex; BIX: alex; voice: (818) 791-7979 fax: (818) 794-2297 bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 24/12/3 BIX: alex
levin@star-trek.bbn.com (Joel B Levin) (04/12/91)
alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes: |klefstad@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sue Klefstad) writes: | |>harv@harvs.UUCP (Patrick L. Harvey) writes: | |>>The rescue disk won't boot on an fx....... I had a different problem with the emergency disk. I couldn't make a working copy. Trying to copy the emergency disk onto another disk, I got the alert saying that there wasn't enough room. So I used the disk copy utility from SUM (no number), copying every sector, and the resulting disk always brought up the initialize alert. (I tried this twice, thinking I had a bad disk.) The emergency disk itself seems to be OK both when normally inserted and as a startup disk; but I'd really like to use a copy. Do I have a bad red disk, or is it supposed to be uncopyable? Boilerplate: Mac SE with 4MB and 6.0.4 and assorted inits. And on an unrelated note, kudos to Symantec for sending out SAM 3 with no write tabs in the disks (NUM came with write-enabled disks). /JBL = Nets: levin@bbn.com | "How does a mouse let me move the cursor anywhere or {...}!bbn!levin | I want?" "What are address busses?" "How do pots: (617)873-3463 | icons work?" --Time-Life Books
gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) (04/13/91)
In article <5781@archive.BBN.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes: >I had a different problem with the emergency disk. I couldn't make a >working copy. Trying to copy the emergency disk onto another disk, I >got the alert saying that there wasn't enough room. I had the same problem. Finally, I hunted around and found an old utility I had called DiskDup+ (I have -no- idea where I got it). Basically, it'll read an entire disk into RAM, then copy it onto another. Great for making multiple copies of a disk. (Keep the Master in RAM and just write, write, write). It was able to make a copy of the NUM emergency disk without any problems. On yet another note, there was a posting recently about which parts of Norton would -not- work on System 7.0. I've tried to go back in our spool but have not been able to find it (not even sure which comp.sys.mac.* it was in). If someone has saved it, could you please either re-post it, or email a copy to me? Many thanks... -- Jim Gaynor - Systems Analyst 1 + "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never Ohio State University ACS-FMS-OCES | comes to any harm. He does silly gaynor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu | things and they come out right." gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu + -Piglet, from "Winnie-The-Pooh"