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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: Copying very large files
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Date: 23 Nov 89 13:59:47 GMT
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In article <1380@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU> wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (wordproc) writes:
>Naturally, I cannot use 4.01's BACKUP/RESTORE to copy the file over several
>disks because 4.01's RESTORE will give an "incorrect DOS version" error when
>I try to restore the file to the MSDOS 3.3 machine's hard disk.  I presume
>that using MSDOS 3.3's BACKUP/RESTORE will fail for the same or similar
>reason.

Why not just boot the 3.3 machine from a 4.01 floppy, and use 4.01's restore
there?  You needn't install 4.01 on the disk to be able to run it.

Duncan Murdoch