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	We have an IBM Model 90 with an IBM internal tape unit, which uses DC2120 tapes.  Until recently, we 
were using OS/2 1.3 and were using a program called OS2TAPE for our backups.  However, since we upgraded to 
OS/2 2.11, OS2TAPE likes to hang after it's done.  When it's exiting back to the PM, the screen clears and ... 
tada!  Nothing.  It is possible to continue working (I love this feature of OS/2!) but the process CANNOT be 
killed (by any normal methods, or any that I have found short of restarting the system, that is...).  The 
backups SEEM to be working OK, but we feel very uncomfortable about perhaps having to rely on this information 
to properly be restored (elegantly worded...).

	We contacted several people and companies about this, including IBM (since they wrote both OS/2 and 
OS2TAPE).  After about an HOUR on tech support, they finally confirmed that OS2TAPE *did* exist (nice of them 
to confirm that the copy sitting in my hands was REAL...).  Unfortunately, they did not produce it anymore.  
They sent us information about a fix called "The April Fix"... which was available to IBM internals only.  :(

	Somewhere along the line, we got word of a program called PMTAPE, and have been searching for several 
weeks for somewhere to get it.  Just Friday, we found out that IBM no longer makes THIS, either... sheesh.

	So basically, the story is that we are looking for a program that will properly run backups on the 
hardware that we have (IBM Model 90, a 486 MCA PS/2 w/ IBM internal tape drive).  If you know of something, or 
where we can get a copy of PMTAPE, I would appreciate hearing it.  I (and my boss(es), incidently) have run 
out of patience with IBM, and decided to turn to other sources.

I would prefer responses emailed to me at dshaw@martha.washcoll.edu, but I will read these groups religiously 
for a while until we've got the problem fixed or I'm convinced that this is all pointless... :)

TIA,
	Doug

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"There is a secret song at the centre of the world, and its sound is like       
razors through flesh. Oh you can hear it's faint echo right now. I'm here to    
turn up the volume, to press the stinking face of humanity into the dark 
blood of its own secret heart."                                        
				-- Pinhead, "Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth"