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Norton Utilities 5.01 Error Messages (Users)

posted by Doug E-mail, 16.08.2012, 21:44

In NU8, the .DLL files as well as all the .EXE files that end in W (for example, NDDW.EXE) are Windows programs -- NU8 included a bunch of utilities for Windows 3.1 too... but they're not needed for (and won't run on) a DOS-only system.

So in the "UPDATES.BAT" file, the first 15 files copied to the BACKUP\ subdirectory are Windows files, and the last 10 are DOS files -- the README file says that these are the names of the files that get patched. But the README said it updates the DOS utilities to run with DOS 6.22, so if you're only using DOS 6.21, you don't need these updated either. (Of course, it wouldn't hurt anything either.)

But at this point, i'm also kind of unsure of exactly what it was you downloaded. Is the "Updates" directory just a *part* of the download or is it the *entire* download?

What might help is if you could post a listing of all the files in the downloaded archive. That way, we'd all be on the same page, and we'd have a more-definite idea of how to proceed. Also, what files were extracted from NU8.EXE? If it's a zip-archive executable, try running:

  pkunzip /vb nu8.exe > nu8.lst

and have a look at the NU8.LST that was created.

Also i want to mention again: The DOS6 utility UNDELETE is similar to the NU UNERASE, and the DOS6 utility SCANDISK is similar to the NU DiskDoctor. You should have both these DOS utilities in your MS-DOS 6.21 distribution. I mention this just in case you want to get going looking for deleted files on the drive. Norton Utilities are nice, but you should already have the tools to get started!

- Doug B.

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