>>"And what exactly does this peculiarly-named disk management software do??"<< Some pertinent info: First, the correct title is "Salvation Wings," not "Salvation's Wings." It's a suite of the five GUI "utility applications" developed and published for the IIgs by the company Vitesse in the early 1990s. The original concept was for five stand-alone GUI utilities for file archiving, optimization, virus detection/removal, file/folder/volume repair, and general "desktop operations." The five products were designed to be in stark contrast to Glen Bredon's "text interface" all-in-one utility package, ProSel. The first of the five developed--and Vitesse's first product--was the archiving application, called "Salvation." Believe it or not, some Apple IIgs users took offense at the name "Salvation," feeling that it was blasphemous. (It's true--I took most of the calls myself.) To avoid unhappiness, Vitesse changed the name to "Bakkup." (Why not "Backup"? Because a company in the PC world had a _hardware_ product titled "Backup," and their lawyers claimed that potential customers would become confused and buy the wrong product. It's true--I took that call, too.) The app was designed and coded by Chris Warner. The optimizing application, designed and coded by Joe Jaworski, was Renaissance No users or lawyers seemed to go nuts over the name. The virus detection/removal application was also designed and coded by Joe Jaworski. It was called Exorciser. The file/folder/volume repair application, Deliverance, was designed and coded by Chris Warner. It was a shame that Vitesse went astray of its original plans and the IIgs market collapsed before Deliverance was developed completely. We had some really great things in mind for Deliverance that would have made it invaluable to IIgs users. Wings, designed and coded by Joe Jaworski, was for "general operations"--it was an alternative approach the "desktop" shell environment. (File/folder copying, naming, deleting, application launch, file comparison, volume (re)naming, file search, and many, many other features.) In the field testing we did, we saw that most users found Wings' way of displaying files and folders more intuitive and efficient to use than the desktop w/ icons approach. Side bar: Joe expanded and refined Wings as a PC application for Vitesse, who released it with the name "Salvation" in the era of Windows 2.0. Salvation was so superior to the MS "explorer" and "filer" utilities, it was a joke. However, since MS gave their utilities with Windows, and Vitesse actually _sold_ Salvation, most Windows users passed Salvation by. The core of Salvations' code goes back to 1990...and with only a few small quirks, it's run great under all verisons of Windows up through and including WinXP. (Might not run under WinNT or Win2000--I've never tried it.) After all five applications had been released separately, the company president decided to market a "package" that comprised them all, calling it "Salvation Wings." (Or there might have been a colon between the two words. It was after my time.) John P. (part of the Vitesse team when it was an adventure) >>"I think the point John was making relates to Apple zealotry. The company he worked for released a product for the Apple called Salvation. In the eyes of the faithful it implied their beloved machines had some inherent defect that they might be in need of salvation. Blasphemy!<<" FWLIW, the feelings about "blasphemy" that came from some IIgs users when the product "Salvation" was first released, were, in fact, reflecting strong 'spritual' attitudes. We thought it completely unreasonable, since the names we'd selected for the application line reflected a purely nonsecular concept of "being saved--as a IIgs user--from a computer-related crisis or problem." The strength of emotion that was expressed by those who contacted the company on the issue was _very_ strong. Though there weren't that many individuals who expressed dissatisfaction, they had an effect. This was the first product from a brand new company, and it was decided to make a name change rather than offend anyone. Frankly, I thought the argument (from the lawyer types) that a PC user might somehow confuse a IIgs _software_ item with a PC _hardware_ item was even more ludicrous. But "Salvation Backup" had to be renamed to "Salvation Bakkup." Apple (company) attitude toward licensed IIgs developers? Arrogant and cold-blooded. Then there was the well-known IIgs-oriented developer/publisher who accused Vitesse of being a "well financed" pseudo company that was formed solely to run him out of business. Since at the time all five of the Vitesse emplyees were working for _nothing_ and the founder/owner was spending the money he got from a second mortgage on his home to try to get the company established, the charge didn't seem too funny. (Ever been in a bootstraps startup group? Lots of hours for no pay...and no guarantee of ever making a dime.) John P.