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- Subject: Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.105008.91@physc1.byu.edu>
- From: robertson@physc1.byu.edu
- Date: 29 Jul 92 10:50:08 -0600
- References: <1992Jul18.005121.105@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1992Jul18.142347.24110@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <18JUL199223124107@venus.tamu.edu>
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- In article <18JUL199223124107@venus.tamu.edu>, tcf9033@venus.tamu.edu (FREY, TONY C) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul18.142347.24110@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes...
- >>In article <1992Jul18.005121.105@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >>>
- >>> How many people think that a shareware floppy backup program for
- >>>OS/2 would be a usefull utility in your tool box? If the Program supported
- >>>HPFS, Long filenames, Extended Attributes, and could be used to backup to
- >>>any Logical device( Floppy, Hard Drive, etc... ) Would the backup utility
- >>>be worth $35 to you? There may be a release next month if there is enough
- >>>demand for it. Let me know what you think, and what FTP sites you look for
- >>>shareware apps on, thanks!
- >>>
- >>>Michael Kupka
- > [STUFF DELETED]
- >
- >>To be honest, unless it is a Tape Backup program that supports shitty
- >>QIC-80, it would be worthless to me. I suspect that under OS/2, since so
- >>much diskspace is required, and people are running on higher end
- >>machines, no one in there right mind is going to back 200 megs onto
- >>floppies.
- >>
- >
- > Welcome to poverty. I bet most of us don't have tape backups. I have a 120
- > meg drive, of which I would gladly back-up onto floppies (been doing so under
- > FAT for 2 years), most users aren't going to have high end systems.
- >
- > An opinion.
- >
- > Tony Frey
- > TCF9033@venus.tamu.edu
- I don't think being rich is a point for a tape backup. I bought a tape
- backup 120MB Colorado, for less than $300. In the past year I am sure I
- have saved over 30 hours pulling in and out floppies and thus I have
- already got my money back. If someone came out with a tape backup
- program that supports HPFS, I would order it now. Doing the backup via a
- utility to backup the desktop to a FAT drive, works but is inconvient, and
- I would prefer to have only HPFS drives. Plus instead of starting the
- backup before I go to bed, I could do it anytime under OS/2.
-
- Please write the backup program to include tape QIC compatibility.
- Jim Robertson robertson@physc1.byu.edu
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