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to: Mike Bilow
from: John Poltorak
date: 1996-01-02 19:32:02
subject: Tape Drives

Friday December 29 1995, Mike Bilow writes to John Poltorak:

 MB>> If you are working with a SCSI drive, the last version of GTAK to be
 MB>> distributed with source code is available here for FReq (1:323/107) or
 MB>> download (+1 401 944 8498):

 MB>> GTAK212B.ZIP  539K  5-19-93  GTAK SCSI tape backup software, version
 MB>> 2.12

 JP>> Latest version is GTAK245.ZIP (for TAPE control) and
 JP>> GTAR245.ZIP (GNU tar).

 MB> As I specifically noted, v2.12 was the last version to be released with
 MB> full source code.

Although GTAK v2.45 does not actually include specific source code for
building the TAPE utility, the program itself is freely available and does
everything you need to do with a tape. To build a tape door, all you need
to do create a few REXX scripts to wrap round TAPE and/or TAR.

John
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