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- From: fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu (Benjamin Kenobi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: DOS Handler question
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 18:17:09 GMT
- Organization: Cornell University
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- I'm looking for information (or sample code) dealing with writing a custom
- DOS-handler. Here's what I want to do:
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- I'd like to write a tape-worm like handler that will work on TAR files
- (written on tape of course). In other words, you would create a TAR file
- on tape and then use this handler to access the files in the archive as if
- they were on a DOS-device. Once the TAR file is created, you would have to
- run a special program once which scans the TAR file and builds a list of
- where the files exist on the tape. Why do I want to do this?
-
- 1. I tried tapeworm. It is nice, but the proccess of putting the files
- into the archive is very slow and innefficient. My tape drive won't stream,
- probably because tapeworm can't do "real" double bufferring.
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- 2. The TAR file format can be read on most computers. If my machine breaks,
- I can still recover my files on another (non-amiga) computer. This is not
- an easy task if your files were written with AmiBack, Tapeworm or Quarterback
- for example.
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- 3. I could then take TAR files on another computer and mount them as a device.
-
-
- I recently obtained a DAT drive, and so far I can't find a software solution
- that fits my needs. Custom backup software is nice but you can't read it
- from other machines. Tapeworm suffers the portability problem and
- additionally does not stream well. TAR is portable but you can't take
- advantage of some drives' "Random Access" features. So what I would like to
- write would solve all of these problems for me. If anyone has any sample
- codes for DOS handlers, or for that matter comments on my idea in general
- please respond in this group or email.
-
- Thank,
- Dan Oberlin
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