Hi all,

ftape-4.03 and all earlier versions have a bug which causes data loss
when appending data to cartridges which already contain data of other
backup programs (i.e. from Windoze), and vice versa.

ONLY CARTRIGES WITH MORE THAN 2^16 = 65536 SEGMENTS ARE AFFECTED,
i.e. TR-3 Extra, and some or all Ditto Max cartridges.

Smaller cartridges are not a problem (i.e. ordinary TR-3).

No problems occur when using the cartridges with ftape allone, only
"mixing" of ftape and other backup programs causes grief.

ftape-4.04 fixes this problem. It will soon be available from the
usual places.

Regards

Claus

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