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#New PAR Software

    12-Jan-95 22:55:52
Sb: #New PAR Software
Fm: Byron D. Bowles 72732,1172
To: ALL
I was told by DPS today that a new version of PAR software (ver. 1.37?) will be released in the next few days. Let's hope that small problems like corruption and backing-up have been addressed. I was also told that you should use the DOS copy to transfer to/from the PAR because the PAR import / export is too unstable (in ver. 1.34B). Am I the last one to know this? Here's a thought – I recently lost 10s of thousands of dollars worth of animation when my PAR drive got corrupted (I was trying to back-up over a network), and I was left with pitiful little fragments here and there. After I saved all the fragments to the local hard drive, I decided to reformat the PAR drive (for the first time since it was new). I hit the Format button and it took about half a second to erase and format the whole drive! I didn't have any time to mourn the lost data! You'd think they'd put in a delay or something so you could at least say some parting words…no respect.