Hi all,


Bill said:
> I guess I'll say from the beginning that I have no financial interest in
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> First, this message should have contained some kind of <<plug alert>.
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> Second, we've pretty much agreed on this list to not throw out a lot of
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> Third, while I respect Paul Wang's contribution to the Transaction
> Manager, my understanding was that he was one of several people involved
> in the creation of the XM.  To lay it all at Paul's doorstep (especially
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> these claims by sales people that aren't backed up by reality.  NO DISK
> DEFRAGMENTATION PRODUCT IS <italic>COMPLETELY </italic>SAFE!  Making a

Quite true.  I always recommend at least an FSCHECK.MPEXL.TELESUP run
first, and a backup.  The same is true for PC defrag programs!  (Well,
you don't literally run FSCHECK on your PC :)

> I suggest that if anyone is interested in defragmentation tools that they
> look closel at DSM, from SolutionSoft, De-Frag/X, from Lund and Allegro
> and VOLUTIL (which contains the CONTIGVOL command) from HP.  Please don't
> listen to sales nonsense from anybody.  Test these things out for


thanks, Bill ... well said!

Stan