Norton Utilities 6.0 supports DOS 5 and Windows 3.1. This 1986 version added the Quick UnErase (QU) and Unremove Directory (UD) programs. This version, copyrighted 1984 but dated 21 January 1985, included Beep, Directory Sort, Disk Test, File Attributes, File Find, File Size, Line Print, List Directories, Screen Attributes, System Information, Text Search, Time Mark, Volume Label, Wipe Disk and Wipe File. The executable files were compressed with Realia's Spacemaker. Following this release Norton became Utilities Editor of PC Magazine. This 1983 release added hard disk support, and the PRINT program was renamed LPRINT to avoid conflict with the DOS command introduced in MS-DOS 2.0 as PRINT.COM. The main feature of this DOS 2.x compatible version was FILEFIND, used for searching for files. FileSort, keeps floppy disk files by date or name.TimeMark, displays date, time, elapsed time.FileHide, interactive hidden file control.DiskLook, complete floppy disk displays and maps.In 1982, when I sat down at my PC to write Unerase, I was solving a common problem to which there was no readily available solution.' ġ4 programs were included, on three floppy disks, list price $80: Quoting Peter Norton, 'Why did The Norton Utilities become such popular software? Well, industry wisdom has it that software becomes standard either by providing superior capabilities or by solving problems that were previously unsolvable.

The UNERASE utility was what launched NU on its path to success. This allowed files to be undeleted by restoring the first letter of the directory entry (a workaround of the FAT file system used in DOS). The initial 1982 release supported DOS 1.x and featured the UNERASE utility. Norton Utilities for DOS and Windows 3.1 Version 1.0

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1 Norton Utilities for DOS and Windows 3.1.

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