Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!bu-cs!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Symantec Utilities for the Mac (SUM) -- yow! Keywords: rather a lot for your $30 Message-ID: <4226@fluke.COM> Date: 28 Jun 88 08:07:45 GMT Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Lines: 65 A little while ago, someone posted that owners of MacZap could upgrade to SUM (Symantec Utilities for the Mac) $30, as Symantec had bought MacZap for use in SUM. Well, to whoever passed that information to the net, thank you! Got SUM in the mail today, and it is NICE. First of all, beautiful manual explaining every step of the recovery process -- this was my biggest gripe with MacZap, as the "average novice user" needed help with it. The manual should be all they help they need -- good use of graphics, showing each step of the way with screen dumps, etc. Rather thick -- looks like a learning guide for Word or something in that realm. What it comes with: -- Disk Clinic, which is the equivalent to the "guide program" that MacZap had (maybe it was called Disk Clinic too, I don't remember). Cleaner interface. -- Guardian, which has a number of features. This is both a program and an INIT, and has a number of features. If you install Guardian on your disk, it aids in recovery of your disk in case it crashes. It has the option of keeping a list of files deleted from the disk, so that you can quickly and easily recover them (looks like it saves the sectors the files were located at). It also stops any operation which would write zeros over the disk's directory. -- Floppy Recover, HFS Recover and Scanner from MacZap... but with exact instructions on how to use them in a number of situations. -- HD TuneUp, a disk optimizer. About equivalent to PowerUp, I think -- very fast, and runs on the startup disk. It doesn't create one contiguous free space like Disk Expre, which is very hand when making large disk partitions, but otherwise, really slick... also a VERY fast analyzer which gives a fragmentation percentage. -- HD Partition. Yup, a disk partitioner DA! And an automounter INIT! Haven't gotten it to work with my tape drive yet (the LaCie drive and Rainy Day, which demands that the partition matches the tape partition exactly for an image restore -- Hard Disk Partition works with this, though), but that's a rather special case. -- (But wait, there's more!) QuickCopy, a combination of floppy copier and initializer, much like Disk Dup+ and MassInit. -- Symantec Tools. File editor tool, like FEdit or MacTools on the Copy II Mac disk. ----- There's probably some other stuff I've forgotten, but cripes! For a $30 upgrade fee, I got a much clearer, better (I suppose, obviously no disk crashes yet) program, plus a File Editor, disk partioner, optimizer and disk copier. Pretty nice... And I get a free debugger for my Lightspeed C compiler in a couple weeks! God, I love this country! [I have no connection with Symantec, other than being either very pleased or damned pleased (in the case of Lightspeed C) with their products] "If this is foreplay, I'm a dead man!" --- Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>