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- From: hendrik@vedge.com (Hendrik Boom)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: CMS Stuff...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.175945.1171@vedge.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 17:59:45 GMT
- References: <21059@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Organization: Visual Edge Software Ltd.
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- ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (James E. Lee) writes:
- : I have a few words to say about Central Point Software's WinBackup--I wish
- : they'd make a product that would work reasonably! If it wasn't such a
- : nice program, I'd say I hate it; as it is, I can only lament it's weaknesses.
- :
- : A few months ago, I purchased two 486SX's with Colorado 120's for a client,
- : and recommended WinBackup--I'd been using it just fine at work for a year
- : or so, and liked the way it works... Well, for some reason, it seemed like
- : they were doomed not to work--I tried everything in the WORLD! I worked
- : for days, and then finally with my vendor, and to no avail... Finally, after
- : trying for a couple days, we got in touch with Central Point. After MANY
- : proposed solutions not working, we got a Faxback doc that said something
- : about the fact that on some faster machines, there are problems with the
- : bus speed (I'd tried all of them) and the fact that the software uses DMA.
- : Among other solutions, it was recommended that 16 color drivers be avoided
- : and 256 ones be used--I changed my Windows drivers to 256c, and BAM! it
- : worked! Any guesses as to why?
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- What OS were you using it with?
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