Yah I know about that ask. It is on my list. On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 4:38 PM <bir...@soigeneris.com> wrote:
> 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 > > >
