In a message of 07-02-1996, BENJAMIN MOSER wrote re: large HD
BM> No "religious objection" taken.  I freely use a mix of dos, win31, and
BM> os/2 apps.   Your point of using os2 native tape utility is valid.
BM> However, I am not sure one exists for the "Backpack" parallel port
BM> connected type I currently have. 
"BackMaster" claims to support the Backpack drive, and I'd be 
surprised if DualStor and others didn't as well.
BM> My point about compatiblity is that
BM> many native DOS programs work poorly or not at all under OS/2's DOS
BM> support.  This includes tape backup software intended for DOS.  
I've had very few problems running DOS programs under OS/2.  I've
even run DOS TAPE.EXE (from Colorado) in a DOS session.  The only
unexpected problem it had was it couldn't format a tape.  But I 
found handling EA's separately was too much of a hassle.
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