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bennett@primenet.com (John Bennett) writes:

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>I don't know about the API as far as NT is concerned, but with '95 I believe 
>you're looking at a considerably bigger struggle.  All the Win 95 backup 
>programs I've seen seem to provide their own driver-level support, as no 
>standard SCSI tape driver is built-in to the OS (unlike NT).  Everything I've 
>seen with SCSI in Win95 seems to indicate that they wanted *some* support 
>built-in, just not necessarily *good* support.  :/

Well, NT has it's own Tape API, but the documentation is, well, not 
exactly an information overkill.
This API exists on NT only, and to use it, you'll need a NT driver for 
the streamer in question.

A more portable way (since it will work on both Win95 and Windows NT) is 
using adaptec's ASPI for Win32. It is included with Win95 and can be 
obtained vie ftp from ftp.adaptec.com as an add-on for NT.
The documentation for it can be found on the same place and is included 
in the Win95 DDK.

ASPI for Win32 is closely related to ASPI for Windows; just a few changes 
were made and so it's a good opportunity to port these old 16-bit backup 
programs to _both_ NT and Win95.
(Hey, Central Point, hey, Symantec, did you hear that?!)

I did some testing with this interface and it seems to be quite useable.