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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: HELP! OS/2 just committed suicide!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.153420.18488@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <189d6aINNc96@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 15:34:20 GMT
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- In article <189d6aINNc96@agate.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
- >This is as much as anything just to let off steam, also to warn about using
- >CPBACKUP under OS/2. Does anyone have any suggestions about
- >3) A good OS/2 backup program/tape drive that will handle HPFS, long names,
- >extended attributes etc. I'll be getting FTP Software's TCP/IP package soon.
- >Will I be able to use this reliably to back up my disk to a workstation?
-
- I'm addressing this question specifically because it comes up quite
- often. Probably yes to the second half of your question. To the
- first half, there are at least a few options. Sytos Plus for OS/2,
- Stirling Intelligent Backup, and OBackup (shareware, soon to be
- available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) all do floppy
- backup with HPFS, EAs, etc.
-
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