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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tape DIsk INIT
Message-ID: <1570@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 08:20:13 GMT
References: <666@cf-cm.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
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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?

Well, if it's the INIT I've seen, it lets you mount the tape drive as a
hard disk. If so, get rid of it! It is the only piece of software
I know of that's so dangerous, it can actually *KILL* you.

You see, you can die of old age... :-)

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Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}