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FREEWARE: TarFront 2.3 (Archiver/backup)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ekkehard Kraemer)
Thu Sep 26 00:52:06 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 26 Sep 1996 04:31:30 GMT
From: ekraemer@pluto.camelot.de (Ekkehard Kraemer)
Reply-To: ekraemer@pluto.camelot.de (Ekkehard Kraemer)
Reply-to: ekraemer@pluto.camelot.de (Ekkehard Kraemer)
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TarFront 2.3, the next release of the PM front end for GTAR/GTAK, has been
uploaded to:
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/archiver/gnu/tarfnt23.zip and
ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/os2/wpsutil/tarfnt23.zip (tarfnt23.zip, 1.1 MB).
Please be patient while the server administrators move the files around or
look for it in the /os2/incoming (or /incoming/os2) directories.
The web URL is http://www.camelot.de/~ekraemer/TarFront .
Features:
- PM frontend for GTAR/GTAK
- Supports backup and restore on streamers, hard disk drives, floppy
disks and files.
- Easy usage
- All TAR parameters can be accessed comfortably through a notebook.
- Most TAPE commands accessible through a menu.
New since 2.2:
- Fixed: all known bugs
- Improved: don't need to confirm each volume when restoring
- Improved: handling of deletion of tapes (including tape directories)
- Added: verify (for HDDs etc.)
- Added: "tape tell" in menu
- Added: "Save" and "Autosave" in menu
- Added: "tape blocksize x" before each operation (optional)
- Added: multivolume support
- Added: can now ask for confirmation for each file when restoring/backing
up
Note that all major new features will be present in 3.0, which will be a
shareware release with moderate pricing in the range of 40-50 US$. Release
date: several months ahead. 2.x versions will always be maintained, supported
and FREE.
NOTE:
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The online documentation of TarFront 2.3 insists that TarFront cannot manage
multivolume tapes or file confirmations. This is wrong, TarFront does support
these features.
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