On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> Years ago I participated in a beta test program of Seagate's, for a
> product that later became "Direct Tape Access," which is a program
> that allows you to have a tape drive masquerade as a disk drive under
> Windows. This worked fairly well, though it had some weaknesses.
> Later, after the BETA testing had been completed, and after the first
> release, of which I got a copy from Seagate, they released a version
> that included another utility, which I also BETA tested as "Gecko"
> (misspelled, but ... THEY spelled it like that.) but which was
> incorporated in DTA as "Copy Exec," which enabled Drag-n-Drop from one
> part of the system tree to another.
>
> Does anybody have a copy of that that they'd care to share? It's no
> longer available from Seagate or from Veritas, which got all the
> Seagate Backup software when it was spun off.
Yes, I installed this software for my friend's business. I can get a copy
of it next time I'm there (sometime in the next couple weeks). Shoot me
your address and I'll mail it to you gratis (I promise it won't explode
when you open it ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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