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From: han@Apple.COM (Byron Han, wyl E. coyote )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tape DIsk INIT
Message-ID: <28714@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 89 15:25:48 GMT
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Organization: Apple R&D - Networking & Communications
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In article <666@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>My local friendly Apple Dealer has just downloaded the Apple Tape Backup 2.0.1
>software, and with it there is an INIT called Tape Disk. Apart from a README
>which warns not to use it with MacroMaker, there's no indication what this
>INIT is supposed to do. Can anyone fill me in? Is its use (a) optional,
>(b) obligatory, or (c) only required in special circumstances? And just what
>is it for?

TapeDisk will allow you to mount volume backup tapes as a regular "disk"
albeit _much_ slower than a real one...

It is entirely optional to use.
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