Re: Xy4 In OS/2

[Michel Slivitzky]

 > Yes, there is a companion to 4DOS called 4OS2, which is said to be
 > quite good.

Excellent product; it extends to OS/2 all features available in DOS.

 > And defragging isn't a problem; there aren't any OS/2-specific
 > defraggers that I know of, but a DOS defragger works OK (you have
 > to boot a clean DOS from a floppy).

It is very dangerous to use a DOS defragger on an OS/2 system, even when
booting from DOS floppy. You may loose all your OS/2 Extended Attributes. I
know of at leat one OS/2 package: GammaTech Utilities that offers defrag for
FAT drives.

 > For tape backups, I'm currently using something called Syplus for
 > OS/2, which I bought from Colorado Memory Systems and which works
 > with their tape drives. It has its annoying quirks but does the
 > job.

There is also BackMaster and BakupWiz and some more are coming (FastBack for
OS/2) ...

 > I'd forgotten about PKZIP for OS/2! I agree, it's not the ultimate
 > backup answer, but I bet it's blazingly fast. Hmmm, I wonder if the
 > the file format is compatible with PKZIP for DOS?

PKZIP for OS/2 presently does not support the 2.04g format; still in version
1.0. But there are freeware OS/2 packages available (ZIP and UNZIP) that are
compatible with the latest PKZIP format and handle Extended Attributes.

-- Michel from Quebec City, Canada