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From: noelroy@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Noel Roy, Economics Dept., Memorial University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Bug using MSDOS 3.2 Backup - 10th disk
Message-ID: <144583@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 11 Oct 90 23:44:03 GMT
References: <1990Oct9.192042.14498@cbnewsc.att.com>
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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In article <1990Oct9.192042.14498@cbnewsc.att.com>, edw@cbnewsc.att.com (Edwin.D.Windes@ATT.COM) writes:
> I think I remember seeing this bug mentioned (a long time
> ago) somewhere on the net.  I'm using AT&T MSDOS 3.2 R2.02
> (and can't switch to a newer version.)
> 
> When I try to RESTORE from a set of BACKUP floppies, RESTORE
> dies on the 10th disk.
> 
> It looks like BACKUP is writing "0:" in the disk ID instead
> of "10", and restore is choking on it.
> 
> Has anyone else run into this problem?  Anyone have a patch?
> 
> thanks,
> Ed Windes (e.windes@att.com)

I once had a problem where BACKUP would write 0D 0A instead of 0A for 
the month of October.  Apparently the programmer forgot to type the 
variable as binary.

I used a sector editor (Norton Utilities or PCTools) to rewrite the 
BACKUPID file on the backup disks.  This worked fine.

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Dr. Noel Roy  				bitnet:   NOELROY@MUN
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Memorial University of Newfoundland	cdnnet:   noelroy@kean.mun.cdn
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