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From: lewis@tramp.Colorado.EDU (LEWIS WILLIAM M JR)
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>>But does SCO's product allow you to click on the icon that represents
>>the 1/4 inch cartridge tape drive, to automatically select tar or cpio
>>(or whatever) for reading the tape?

Whoever wrote this forgot the fundamental theorem of programming:

	"Programs designed to do things FOR the user inevitably
		 will do things TO the user."

See some of the "helpful" features in BSD (csh, vi, ls, etc.) for examples.