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- NU 7.0 Update for MS-DOS 6.2
-
- This update for Norton Utilities version 7.0 provides support for
- the newly released MS-DOS Version 6.2. MS-DOS 6.2 extends the
- interactive boot feature to include the ability to single-step
- through your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and adds an Automount capability
- for DoubleSpace removable media (such as diskettes), along with
- several other features.
-
- The following Norton Utilities programs are affected by the new
- MS-DOS 6.2:
-
- NDOS - Adds support for the /Y switch for interactive
- boot.
- NDD, SFORMAT,
- and RESCUE - Modified for support of DoubleSpace Automount
- drives. This update also supports the Auto-
- mount feature of SuperStor/DS for IBM DOS 6.1.
-
- NOTE: An additional update to Norton Cache, which is necessary
- when MS-DOS 6.2 DoubleSpace Automount is enabled, will be provided
- as a separate patch available before the end of November 1993.
- In the meantime, if you are using Norton Cache, you should
- disable the Automount feature using the DBLSPACE utility.
-
- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
- -------------------------
- To update the current version of NU 7.0, copy the three files,
- DOS62UP.BAT, DOS62UPP.EXE and DOS62UP.RTP, to the directory
- containing the original copy of Norton Utilities Version 7.0.
- Change into the directory where you just copied these files and
- then type:
-
- DOS62UP <ENTER>
-
- A new BACKUP sub-directory will be created containing your original
- programs, in case you need to return to the original versions.
-
- IMPORTANT! If you reinstall NU7, you must reinstall this update.
- Before reinstalling this update by running DOS62UP, you must delete
- the files in the BACKUP directory. DOS62UP.BAT will do this for you.
-
- UPDATE NOTES
- ------------
- NDOS now supports a new switch (/Y) which causes it to prompt
- "(Y/N)? " prior to execution of each line in any startup batch file
- (including NSTART.BTM and AUTOEXEC.BAT and any batch file called by
- them). This switch is passed automatically by DOS 6.2 when you
- press the <F8> key while DOS is loading (interactive boot).
-
- SFORMAT and RESCUE include support for mounted DoubleSpace
- compressed diskettes. When you enter these utilities, they will
- determine the type of diskette in the drive, and if compressed
- they will indicate this in the Size field. Because you cannot
- directly format the compressed diskette, SFORMAT also lists
- the host drive letter which you can format. If you format the
- host drive, the diskette will no longer be compressed. (You
- should use the utility provided by your compression software
- to reformat a compressed diskette that you want to remain
- compressed.) RESCUE will allow you to copy rescue files to a
- compressed diskette without reformatting it, or you can select the
- host drive letter to format and create a non-compressed rescue
- diskette.
-
- NOTE: If you swap the type of diskette (compressed vs. non-
- compressed) in the drive while running SFORMAT or RESCUE, you must
- exit and restart the utility to refresh the drive information.
-
- After installing this update, the SFORMAT.EXE, and RESCUE.EXE
- files will be about 90-95K larger than the originals. In order
- to provide this update electronically, these files had to be
- made independent of the NLIB100.RTL file. This greatly increased
- their size. Because passwords are stored in the NLIB100.RTL file,
- SFORMAT can no longer be password protected.
-