On 29 January 2014 23:54, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Central Point's
PCTools, in order to avoid the "absolutely intolerable" situation of
disruption of their pretty screen displays by disk error messages,
intercepted the critical error vector, and changed ALL errors to an
automatic response of "IGNORE"! I found THAT out when I realized that the
disk retries that seemed to resolve, and never produced an error message
were actually loss of sector(s) of my "INCOMING ORDERS TELEPHONE LOG"
file! I immediately switched that text editing back to PC-Write.
That is pretty scary, but I'm curious. Back in the day - late 1980s -
I used PC Tools heavily. It was one of my go-to, er, well, tools for
data recovery, disk defragging, rapid backup to floppy, etc.
But that's all it did. It was a utilities toolkit.
What were you using it for? It had no productivity apps that I recall...
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