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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: Maintainer of ft/lft
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:46:28 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199704252054.NAA04073@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 25, 97 01:54:16 pm
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It seems that Terry Lambert said:
> 
> > > If so, I withdrawl the aspersion, and would be *very* happy to know
> > > where you got the documentation.  I would probably even be willing
> > > to work on a driver for the IOmega tape drive, if you have a source
> > > for the technical documents not under non-disclosure; seeing as it's
> > > also QIC-117 and they are standard, it should be easy to write with
> > > QIC-117 documentation available.
> > 
> > The standards are "free for the asking".  I'll dig up the contact
> > address if you'd like.
> > 
> > Biggest problem with the QIC stuff is that there are too many
> > "standards".  Also, it has to cooperate with the ft driver and

Grrrr.... should be "fd" ----------------------------^^
(sorry)

--don

> > allowing them to be active concurrently is a nuisance (though
> > I think desirable).