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- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Subject: Re: Will Dell load off a Wangdat DAT?
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:03:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <2B35DCC4.64AB@telly.on.ca>
- References: <2B31F4A1.6C66@telly.on.ca> <BzIyEw.IoK@mccc.edu> <BzL0tp.A3H@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- In article <BzL0tp.A3H@chinet.chi.il.us>
- les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
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- >In article <BzIyEw.IoK@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
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- >Were these the compressing or non-compressing drives? I think the
- >Dell distribution comes on a tape for the compressing HP.
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- I hope this isn't the issue.
-
- One would hope that a company doing a software distribution on DATs
- would use a format workable on as many drives as possible. Since all
- drives are capable of non-compressing reads and writes, would this not
- be the preferable way to write to a tape, so that the maximum number of
- DATs are capable of reading it back?
-
- After all, I don't think that the Dell distribution, even with all its
- bells and whistles, would fill a 1.2GB uncompressed DAT tape. So why
- bother with the compression?
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
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