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RE: OS X utility

My take on the matter:

If fsck(8) doesn't suffice, I'll wait for Apple to fix fsck.

--Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: email@hidden
> [mailto:email@hidden] On Behalf Of
> Steven Kolins
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 4:32 PM
> To: email@hidden
> Cc: Chuq Von Rospach; Chris Gibson; nathan r. hruby
> Subject: Re: OS X utility
>
>
> I've used Norton for X but you have to run from a firewire
> drive. They have a beta for Norton 8 out that runs native off
> the cd in X.
>
> One problem with DW 2.11 is that it does a sort of all or
> nothing approach to fixing it. Norton can let you skip some
> "fixes". One thing DW 2.11 does *wrong* is that it reads the
> encoding done on file names and fixes them if they are wrong.
> But it fixes them for OS9 which is different for OSX (see
> utils from apple about fixing encoding for more info.)
>
> So what happens is, for example, a forced pref folder like
> explorer gets renamed explorer234488 which is suddenly no
> good for managing prefs.
>
>
> DW3 may fix this - it supposed to run in X and apparently can
> be booted off a cd. But it hasn't shipped yet.
> ' ' ' ' ' ' ''"""""""""""'' ' ' ' ' '
> Steven Kolins
> Alamance-Burlington NC USA, Mac Systems Tech
> mailto:email@hidden
> http://homepage.mac.com/smkolins
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