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- SCSI TAPE BACKUP for OS/2 2.0
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- Version 2.10
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- $Id: readme.abs,v 1.7 1993/01/16 17:36:21 ak Exp $
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- gtak210.zip OS/2 binaries and source
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- Consisting of:
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- A SCSI tape device driver based on the ADD interface (no ASPI
- required).
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- A SCSI tape device driver based on the OS2SCSI.DMD interface,
- mainly intended for the IBM PS/2 SCSI adapter.
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- A SCSI tape device driver based on the ASPI interface. OS/2
- syslevel >= 2.00.1 (Service Pack) required.
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- A SCSI tape control program.
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- A port of GNU tar 1.10 to OS/2 2.0, with tape support and quick
- file access added.
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- Features:
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- Support for HPFS filenames and extended attributes.
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- Complete tape control.
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- Full compatibility to Unix tar.
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- Quick file access via tape directories for SCSI-2, Tandberg
- SCSI-1 streamers and some others.
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- True incremental backups either by date or by the archive bit.
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- Optional compression.
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- Can read and write non-DOS diskettes compatible to Unix.
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- Prerequisites:
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- OS/2 2.0.
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- SCSI tape drive.
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- SCSI adapter with true SCSI driver. Tested ok: Adaptec 154x, 174x,
- Future-Domain, DPT2011, IBM SCSI 32-bit.
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- Some knowledge of the Unix tar program, a Unix manual with a page on
- tar or the ability to read an outdated TeX documentation :-).
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