An addendum: I was just chatting with the Backpack developer about this. Another point he brought up is that the Backpack won’t overwrite an existing file. Let’s say you are using TS-DOS and you try to save a file with the same name as one on the disk. The Backpack (like the real TPDD?) will return a file exists error. TS-DOS will ask if you want to overwrite. When you select YES TS-DOS first deletes the existing file on the disk then it saves the new file.
The REX seems to ignore a file exists error and then gives up/times out. It would be nice to have the same sort of prompt that TS-DOS provides. The user may not wish to overwrite a previous backup, and this will give them a warning that they are about to do so. Jeff Birt From: bir...@soigeneris.com <bir...@soigeneris.com> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2023 1:30 PM To: 'm...@bitchin100.com' <m...@bitchin100.com> Subject: RE: [M100] Rex#..TPDD compatibility For the Backpack, when you save a file the Backpack needs to check to see if the file already exists. If you have a lot of files in the directory it will take a while to check all of them. The timeout on the REX is rather short so it gives up before the Backpack (or real drive I would guess) can respond. The work around is to save to a directory with few files. If you can increase the timeout on the REX it would probably solve the issue for it and the real drive. Jeff Birt
