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- From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
- Subject: Re: tape drives and a WIN/OS@ question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.055143.18271@netcom.com>
- Keywords: windows tape backup
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1993Jan20.221807.18627@sinkhole.unf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:51:43 GMT
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- jdough@sinkhole.unf.edu (Joseph Dougherty) writes:
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- > Has anyone found a satisfactory tape drive/software combination
- >for OS/2 yet? Following the traffic here, in the PC nets and on CIS
- >leads me to believe that this is a somewhat sticky area. Backing up
- >to floppies is a pain and I'd like to invest in a decent drive (a CMS
- >Jumbo 120 comes to mind). I don't have *major* needs now, just one 200
- >meg drive with 4 partitions (2 HPFS and two FAT). All comments would
- >be welcomed.
-
- I have been successfully runing with a SCSI standard tape and GTAK, available
- on hobbes (shareware). It works better than the commercial stuff.
-
- > Second question:
- > I have a couple of small Windows apps that run a lot slower
- >in a seperate window than they do under "full" Win/OS2. In particular,
- >I have a shareware backgammon game that runs slow and demonstrates poor
- >screen refreshes when in a seamless window. Dialog boxes don't clear
- >properly...the text clears from the box but the white shadow stays on the
- >screen too long. Is there a setting to correct this?
-
- DO you have the SP installed ? this cleared some but not all of the seamless
- problems.
-
- [sam]
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