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to: JUSTIN BAUSTERT
from: SCOTT LITTLE
date: 1997-04-20 15:50:00
subject: Which is the best?

 [ Quoting Justin Baustert to Scott Little ] 
 SL> Lets see...ARCsolo, Backmaster, Fastback, Dualstor, and Sytos (two
 SL> versions of that one).
 JB> Back Again/2, BakupWiz, Seagate Backup for OS/2, NovaBack for OS/2..
Above is a perfect example of just why I don't use OS/2 for my day-to-day
use. If I have to go through nine possible backup programs to find one that
WORKs, let alone one that I like, it's a pretty sad picture.
Under Win95, the first program I tried was a Colorado backup program, which
doesn't work with anything but their own drive. The second and third ones are
just fine (Arcada and NovaBack). All I had to do was pick one I liked the
best.
 SL> you content with old technologies just because the industry as a
 SL> whole hasn't adopted it (even though it pretty much has anyway)? Or
 SL> just because your beloved OS2 doesn't have anything that does v3.2?
 JB> Most of the people that use the new-fangled web-page makers ought to
 JB> be shot  for the cheese that's being put on the net..
Since when are TABLEs 'new fangled'?  You seem to think 3.2 is leaps and
bounds ahead of everyone. It's not. WebExplorer and NetScape/2 support the
majority of HTML3 (and quite a lot of 3.2) tags. It's just that OS2 doesn't
have anything that can edit the damn things. I really couldn't be bothered
converting the HTML3.2 tag index from Windows .HLP format into plain text
either.
 
 JB> Oh, that would be because DOS and OS/2 are 2 different things, unlike
 JB> your  DOS/32 boxes..  I can shut my DOS support off, it seems you are
 JB> stuck with  it..
'DOS/32'? Win32 programs are STARTED from a DOS box, they don't run in one.
The only difference is that DOS boxes have enough Windows code in them to
detect a Windows program and start a Windows session.
Regards,
 - Scott
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