Hey I said the stuff seems to work, not

Post #4,666 by Ashton 8/11/01 7:38:17 PM Reply	Hey I said the stuff seems to work, not that they knew anything about marketing to peculiar homo-saps ('peculiar' - by def'n, anyone who would want, could use such utils today, that is). Hell, send 'em a note! You might well be heard immediately.. I just ordered on seeing a friend's demo and thinking that, if we don't support such efforts - we'll be left with only the Symantec Disneyland comic bloatware demos, a bowdlerized scan disk which reports Nothing! and SpinRite.. for a while longer (until the few who understand its purpose and its cleverness - also are replaced with the latest crop of MCSE College of San Mateo 'certificants'). (I also bought XTree - then.. and in the CP/M days a clever program called Power! which was also way-smarter than the prevailing 'retype everything forever' mindset.) Fight Dumbth: pay good authors for decent work, so they can eat. Today. A.
Post #4,699 by Andrew Grygus 8/12/01 12:20:32 AM Reply	Xtree has been replaced. [link\|http://www.ztree.com/\|ZTree] is available for 32-bit Windows and OS/2, and is much better than XTree Gold. At $30 it is clearly a "must have" (I have both Windows and OS/2 versions and use them incessently in-house and for field support). It is available from [link\|http://www.bmtmicro.com/\|BMT Micro]. Spinrite is, of course, a basic essential without which one cannot claim to be a competent technician (except version 2.0, which did not work (but cost as much as the versions that do work)). [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #4,717 by Ashton 8/12/01 2:42:53 AM Reply	Re: Xtree has been replaced. Huzzah! Heh - I think I skipped V2 of SpinRite - was that the one which took forever (as if it were counting Avogadro's number to make up 1 mol of domains?) I think he replaced it with 3.0 for free? Thanks for ZTree link, bookmarked. I've been using list.com (just today - getting the &#^@# ancient .dlls from Iomega replaced with later.) So far, looks as if the ZIP works still, with the later ones needed by Adaptec/Roxio and DVD aps. But list's alien - my brain wants the Tree back. Will have to read a bit further - it's a 32-bit ap but some of the connections to .zip and other compressors - appear to use .bat files (!!) and even some graphics viewers from XTG-3.0 Ummm.. Anyway for $30 - Looks as if, when booted to DOS mode, I'd still need list.com -?- for messing with the \\sys items which are locked by share normally, with win.com running. Damn - pity that some X-Tree can't be kludged to work with long filenames and really run in DOS of the Windoze kind. Guy says he wrote it in C, compiled via M$ C++ (w/o seeing X-Tree source!). A true fanatic. Cheers, A.
Post #4,737 by Andrew Grygus 8/12/01 11:37:03 AM Reply	Spinrite 2 Spinrite 2 worked fine if there was nothing wrong with the drive. If it found anything, it would stall right there, forever as far as I could tell. When I complained they said they had an update to 2 that fixed the problem, but they wanted almost as much for the update as for the full program, so I declined and went back to Spinrite 1 for a couple of years. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #4,718 by Ashton 8/12/01 2:43:25 AM 8/12/01 2:46:07 AM Reply	Never mind: it's a ZopeDupe Edited by Missing User 70 Aug. 12, 2001, 02:46:07 AM EDT Expand All History

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