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- Path: sparky!uunet!nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at!awiwuw11!rony
- Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 13:23:35 CET
- From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Message-ID: <92350.132335RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Beware of Backup (Re: Some OS Q's.
- References: <Qf_3j1q00UhWM7ykZk@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Matthew:
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- If you plan to write a backup-utility for OS/2, do **not** use OS/2'
- backup. It does not backup system/hidden-files (e.g. CMD.EXE, COMMAND.EXE)
- and locked files. Why, I do not know (check-out the online-help).
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- Why don't you use GNU's tar of GTAK under the hood (see hobbes.nmsu.edu) ?
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- ---rony
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