John Poltorak wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 CH>> I am going to ask a programmer that I am beta testing
 CH>> for to write a   tape door for use in a dos BBS that is run
 CH>> under OS/2.  I would like   to know if there is any public
 CH>> domain code that I can give him to help   him through the
 CH>> OS/2 specific ways of talking to the tape drive.

 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 2.12

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

 JP> These programs are excellent, and even include tape usage
 JP> over a network. 

As I specifically noted, v2.12 was the last version to be released with
full source code.  If the person was looking for backup software, I would
have referred him to the latest version.  Since he was looking for source
code examples, I referred him to the version appropriate for his purposes.
 
-- Mike


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