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Number   :  127
Date     :  2001-06-01
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: About the new XXCOPY
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For those who are not familiar with DATMAN, here's a background info.

Dwayne has been a long time customer with DATMAN, Pixelab's tape backup
product. XXCOPY has been distributed with the DATMAN package by the
name, DCOPY/DCOPY32. The predecessor of XXCOPY started as a replacement
of XCOPY for Novell's NetWare (can you believe it took years for Microsoft
to topple Novell from their glory?) users. DATMAN is an interesting piece
of software which assigns a drive letter to a tape (we support
only the DAT tape (4mm) and 8mm tapes) drive which allows an ordinary
file-access program such as XCOPY to do the backup job from batch files
unlike typical tape backup software (which does all the tape access
but won't let you use any other programs to access the files on tape).

Anyway, to make the long story short, the only extra feature that DCOPY
supported in addition to the standard switches of XCOPY was the /C
switch which allows the program to continue after encountering the
dreadful "A(bort), or R(etry)?" prompt. At that time, XCOPY did not
give you the third option of F(ail) which allows the program to
give up on accessing the problematic file and move on rather than
the only practical choice of aborting the system backup. That was the
motivation for our creation of DCOPY, and one thing led to another...

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Here's the answer to DATMAN users. If you are a paid DATMAN licensee,
we will send you an XXCOPY License file (customized for each user).
That is, you will be dealing with the XXCOPY Pro Edition. We will give
you just one License file which will be good for your entire network.
It's a site license. When you receive the XXCOPY.LIC file (we normally
send it as a ZIP file which is attached to an Email, you will unzip it
and save it in the same directory as your XXCOPY.EXE file.

By the way, the filenames of the executable programs inside the
XXCOPY Freeware package and the XXCOPY Pro Edition package are
all the same. That is, we will now have XXCOPY.EXE which could
be either the Pro Edition or Freeware. The banner line shown when
invoked will identify which version of XXCOPY you are running.
It will be a minor hassle from time to time to deal with two
distinct programs which share the same name. But, to treat them
differently will be even worse nightmare for documentation purposes
because they are essentially the same.

One thing in our favor is that XXCOPY is still a relatively simple
program (unlike other monstrous Windows program packages) with minimum
hassle in its setup. You can rename the executable program if you
wish without any adverse consequences. For example, you may keep both
the XXCOPY Freeware and XXCOPY Pro in the same machine. It will be
your responsibility to rename the files. For example, you may
rename the freeware version as XXCOPYFW.EXE. Or, XXFW2560.EXE
to encode the version number (that's how we do it in our labs).

Kan Yabumoto

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At 2001-05-31 22:42, Dwayne Reid wrote:
>At 03:42 PM 5/30/01 -0500, Kan Yabumoto wrote:
>
> >Basically, the XXCOPY package will be split into two pieces.
> >
> > XXCOPY Freeware
> > XXCOPY Pro Edition
>
>Hi there, Kan.
>
>How does the new licensing scheme work with Datman users. For example, I
>use Datman to back up to back up our small network (about 20 PCs) from my
>machine. Do I need to license each of those PCs?
>
>dwayne
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