[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Richard B. Gilbert]

P. Sture wrote:
> In article <gs2e2g$2nd$3 at pechter.motzarella.org>,
>  pechter at bandit.pechter.dyndns.org.pechter.dyndns.org (Bill Pechter) 
>  wrote:
> 
>> In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-KUhwpuvoZjLb at rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
>> Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:22:48 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Note the percentage of fragmentation.  And, no, there are no de-frag
>>>> programs for BSD Unix.  The question does come up from a windows weenie
>>>> periodically in the BSD Newsgroups.
>>> Remind me when DEC finally provided a defragmenter for VMS...! :-)
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Bob Eager
>> 197x
>>
>> DSC.
>>
>> Oh, you mean on-line defragmenter 8-)
>>
> 
> $ defrag
> Disk File Optimizer for OpenVMS DFG V2.5
> Copyright ? Compaq Computer Corp. 1991,1999.   All rights reserved
> DFO>
>                                   ^^^^
> 
> Before that there were third party solutions - Diskeeper and RAXCO's 
> PerfectDisk were a couple.
> 

There was even a freeware defragmenter.  ISTR that the author's given 
name was "Mike".  He was out in California somewhere.  I ran his program 
for a few years while I was at Princeton.  At McGraw-Hill we had a 
commercial package; I no longer recall which one; it might have been Raxco.