3/17/93
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Price:
     Retail - $79.95     
     Promotional - $49.95 [for first 30 commercial ship days]
     Shipping - $5.00 plus $3.50 if COD.
     Texas residents please add 8.25% sales tax.

Release Date:
     Delayed until full release of OS/2 2.1 .

Interface:
     Presentation Manager Interface with multiple options for file listings.
     Pull Down and Pop menus.
     Online Help.

File Selection for Backup/Restore:
     Wildcard file selection (file filtering).
     Select individual or multiple Directories( Folders ) from Tree View.
     Select individual or multiple Files in Detailed View.
     Partially selected Directories are marked with a hashed checkmark.
     Fully selected Directories are marked with a full checkmark.

Backup:
     Handles locked system files (*.ini *.dll *.exe) and excludes swapper.dat.
     User selectable number of attempts to retry reading locked data files.
     Supports multiple tape volumes and multiple volume tapes.
     Unattended operation in background.
     
Restore:
     User selectable prompting for overwrites of existing files:
          Always Overwrite         Never Overwrite
          Prompt Before Overwrite  Overwrite with Newer          
     Command line restore for disk crash recovery.

Data Handling:
     Reed Solomon Error Correcting Code.
     STAC LZS Data Compression (QIC Compliant).
     Backup/Restore of Extended Attributes and Long File Names. (QIC 500 Specs) 
     Backup/Restore of OS/2 FAT, and HPFS file systems.
     Read tapes with DOS QIC-40 rev. I, QIC-80 rev. E Logical Format.
          OS/2 Users can restore files, and directories backed up using
          CMS Software on DOS Machines.

Error and Message Reporting:
     To Display          To Log File         To Both

Hardware Supported:
Floppy Devices
     5.25"     1.2Mb, 360Kb
     3.5 "     1.44Mb, 720Kb

QIC-40/80 Tape Drives.
     Colorado Memory Systems specific:
          DJ-10 "Jumbo 120" (QIC 40) & DJ-20 "Jumbo 250" (QIC 80)
          AB-10 Adapter Board.
          Y-Cable Drive-B Sharing.
     IOmega specific:
          "PC-Powered" Internal and External (QIC 80)
          Y-Cable Drive-B Sharing.
     Generic QIC-40/80 tape drives.
          Most supported as 2nd floppy device.

Features not supported in 1.0 release, but considered a high priority:
     True Incremental backup based on archive bit status.
     2.88 Floppy Drives.
     Colorado Memory systems FC-10, and TC-15 Controllers
     Y-Cable Drive-B Sharing with drives other than CMS and IOmega.
     CMS "Trakker" drives using the parallel interface.
     SCSI based tape drives.