Re: Bakkup 2.0?

[taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1p5q7nINNg15@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, Lawrence S Lee writes...
> 
> I forget the official name of those applications... "Finder-aware"? The
> ones that don't jump to the text screen when you execute them from the
> Findr... is that a System 6 feature?

    That's the "smooth launch" feature of System 6... you have to set
certain auxtype bits so the GS/OS doesn't flip to the text screen.

> if it _is_ a System 6 feature, maybe Vitesse just goofed in
> putting Bakkup 2.0 on a system 5.04 disk.

    At least Bakkup still works with 5.0.4... They probably put on the
older version because System 6.0 + Bakkup won't fit on a single floppy.

> the only problem I've seen with bakkup is that it keeps thinking that my
> disks are write-protected...

    So how do you do any backups if it thinks your disks are all write-
protected?  Seems like a pretty major flaw to me...
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