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Archive-name: auto/comp.os.os2.apps/Available-GTAK-2-01

A new version of the GTAK SCSI tape software is available, version 2.01.
This is a 32-bit version that works under OS/2 2.0 only. You may want to
keep version 1.00 for use under OS/2 1.3 and DOS, if needed.

It is available from:

- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, pub/uploads or pub/os2/new soon
- ftp.uni-erlangen.de, pub/pc/os2/fauern/tape (soon)

The author of GTAK is Andreas Kaiser, I have done extensive beta testing
and added several enhancements and bug fixes.

News:

- new tar version, 1.10
- enhanced tape control program (new options)
- new device driver

The new device driver does no longer require an ASPI base device driver
but instead works directly on top of the ADD. it is currently tested
(working) with Adaptec 1542 controllers on ISA machines. It may work
with other controllers or not. It does not work with IBM SCSI
controllers on PS/2 machines due to currently unknown problems.

If you used GTAK 1.00 before and had the problem of OS2SCSI.DMD (for
CD-ROM) and OS2ASPI.DMD (tape) locking each other out, you can now
remove OS2ASPI.DMD and use both devices without restrictions.

TAR is now a 32-bit program and does not have memory limitations any
longer.

Please read the readme files included with GTAK 2.01 very carefully.

If you should come across a copy of GTAK 2.00, please discard it and
replace it by this version, 2.00 was an intermediate release on FidoNet.

Note: I made a version of GNU tar (1.10) for OS/2 before, a 16-bit
version, that has been available for a long time now. All my changes
were merged into GTAK 2.01, there will not be a separate GNU tar version
available from me in the future, only this GTAK version.

A few known problems are still in GTAK 2.00, that will be solved in
future versions:

- no compressed archives on floppies or tapes
- no automatic multi-volume support on tapes, you have to use -L
  together with -M, otherwise tar will not properly hande end-of-tape
  situations

You can submit possible bug/problem reports either to Andreas Kaiser or
to me. Use the addresses <ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org> and
<rommel@jonas.ucrc.sub.org>, please.

Kai Uwe Rommel

/* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */

DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams