Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:985 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:5551 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bigsur!bcars53!mussar From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar) Subject: Re: Can't RESTORE a file from a BACKUP set Message-ID: <1991Jan15.210851.27866@bigsur.uucp> Keywords: BACKUP RESTORE archive bit Sender: news@bigsur.uucp Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada References: Date: Tue, 15 Jan 91 21:08:51 GMT In article halcyon!ralphs@sumax.seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) writes: >alee@elaine39.stanford.edu (Andrew Lee) writes: > >> So, does anybody know what's going on with this, and how my brother can >> retrieve the files off his BACKUP disks? > >Maybe someone could offer the location of a neat little utility that >turns DOS's BACKUP'd disks into useable 'standard' format ones that >will allow you to just copy the files. I checked SIMTEL20's listing >and didn't see anything resembling it. It's prob. not that easy. You might try restor55.zip on simtel20. This is a shareware replacement for restore which is more robust than MS's restore. It can handled backup formats from DOS 2.0 to 4.01. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Mussar |Bitnet: mussar@bnr.ca | Phone: (613) 763-4937 BNR Ltd. | UUCP: ..uunet!bnrgate!bcars53!mussar | FAX: (613) 763-2626