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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: CMS tape backup is buggy!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.203432.25327@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 20:34:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.143333.4781@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec30.143333.4781@spcvxb.spc.edu> benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
- >I have just returned the CMS software that i d/l last night. It is buggy
- >to say the least. Proprietary format is not what i needed. The driver
- >accesses and grinds my A drive everytime i attempt to read or write
- >the tape drive. I couldn't get a volume directory after a full backup
- >in order to test the restore capabilities. Save your $99 and wait a month
- >for the Backmaster version which will be QIC 40 and 80 format. So I'm
- >told anyway. I would like to see the software be a command line utility
- >rather than a pm app. If the system crashes, I really don't want to install
- >GA and the SP just to backup. I want to be able to boot OS/2 via floppy
- >and run the tape software then. Back to the drawing board. For those of you
- >familiar with the quality of CMS products, you can immediately see that this
- >is not their product. Quite a shame.
-
- According to the specs, BackMaster will include a text mode restore
- capability, for precisely the reason you give.
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