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cs_...@yahoo.com

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May 6, 2010, 1:13:59 PM5/6/10
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I have an old system that I want to get rid of, and before I do, I
wanted to burn some tape backups to CD.

My problem is I can't get Dualstor to work. The OS2 version exhibits
different errors; running past the end of the tape, restoring a ffew
files and then ending, or sometimes simply crashing the system. I am
running the OS2 version on Warp booted from diskettes.

SR.exe is 60,584 bytes, IP22drv IS 65,846 Bytes, and both are dated
3-25-94.

I also tried the windows version under Win95 (I said it's an old
system), but it gets an "insufficient memory" error. Dualstrw is
236,880 bytes and is dated 7-25-94. This is the only app running and I
have plenty of memory.

Any assistance, or pointers to where to go for assistance, is
appreciated as there are some files on the tape that were lost when a
disk crashed.

Paul Ratcliffe

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May 8, 2010, 8:12:04 AM5/8/10
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On Thu, 6 May 2010 10:13:59 -0700 (PDT), cs_...@yahoo.com <cs_...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I have an old system that I want to get rid of, and before I do, I
> wanted to burn some tape backups to CD.
>
> My problem is I can't get Dualstor to work. The OS2 version exhibits
> different errors; running past the end of the tape, restoring a ffew
> files and then ending, or sometimes simply crashing the system. I am
> running the OS2 version on Warp booted from diskettes.
>
> SR.exe is 60,584 bytes, IP22drv IS 65,846 Bytes, and both are dated
> 3-25-94.

Sounds like it might be version 2.0 - my files are dated 1995 and that
was version 2.01. They obviously fixed a few of the nastier bugs although
there were still quite a lot left.
It was never desperately reliable and God it was slow to do most things
(even ones that didn't involve shuttling end to end on the tape 10 times).

Let me know if you want a copy to try.

cs_...@yahoo.com

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May 14, 2010, 11:37:07 AM5/14/10
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On May 8, 8:12 am, Paul Ratcliffe <ab...@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78>
wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2010 10:13:59 -0700 (PDT), cs_h...@yahoo.com <cs_h...@yahoo.com>

Thanks - I would like a copy.

Eric Erickson

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May 15, 2010, 12:52:08 PM5/15/10
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On Sat, 15 May 2010 11:50:20 -0500 (CDT), Eric Erickson wrote:

>I have a version 3.0 of DualStor. The compressed files on the diskette have a
>7-25-1995 timestamp
>
>Used to use it with my old 250 MB CMS Tape Drive, before I moved up to 4 mm
>DAT.
>
>Let me know if your interested.
>
>Cheers,
>

Repost because of initial error.


Eric Erickson
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Charlie Hart

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Jun 5, 2010, 9:27:32 AM6/5/10
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Whatever you can send me, I can try. What I really need to get is a
set of bootable diskette images that contain the SR.exe. I have Warp
boot diskettes and SR, but can't get them to work together.

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