The download contains a copy of the install disk for v. 2.0 with a
crack patcher included. Version 2.0 of this tape� mounting package
allows users of System 7.5 to mount volumes that are as large as 4 GB.
Users can access files directly from tape.
> DeskTape 2.0 is a one trick pony. As its lone trick, DeskTape mounts
> DAT tapes on your desktop as normal, albeit slow, Finder volumes.
> You can do most anything with a DeskTape volume that you can do with
> any Finder volume, with a few exceptions. Most importantly, because
> files on a DAT are written sequentially, you cannot mount a DeskTape
> volume and edit files stored on the volume. Similarly, you can't
> reclaim space from deleted files. Finally, you can't (or shouldn't)
> share a tape over a network because of the ways networks interact
> with tape drives. In addition, you'd be wasting time to launch
> applications from the tape or rebuild the desktop on the tape
> because you could grow old waiting for the process to finish.
> Interestingly, Optima gives instructions for playing QuickTime
> movies from tape, which apparently is possible if everything works
> just right (and there's a full moon).
> In other words, use DeskTape to copy files to a DAT tape and copy
> files from a DAT tape, but try to avoid other tasks. So maybe a
> DeskTape volume isn't quite as useful as a Finder volume, but how
> many Finder volumes do you have that cost $10 to $12 and can hold
> several gigabytes? Not many, I suspect, but DAT tapes fit the bill
> precisely.
?[Excerpt from TidBITS#253][1]
See also: [DeskTape Pro][2]
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k
Untested because of lack of a tape drive.
[1]:
http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library.cgi?e=d-00000-00---off-0tidbits--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-about---00-0-1-00-0-0-11-1-0utfZz-8-00&cl=CL1.22&d=HASH0135b2c2cfdff08b0f79b65e.3>=1
[2]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/desktape-pro
