Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:1028 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:5929 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: <1991Jan28.161634.25486@bigsur.uucp> Sender: news@bigsur.uucp Reply-To: mussar@bnr.ca (G. Mussar) Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada References: Date: Mon, 28 Jan 91 16:16:34 GMT In article alee@elaine39.stanford.edu (Andrew Lee) writes: >I'm posting this on behalf of my brother, who has no net access. > >He has two sets of BACKUP disks produced by IBM DOS 3.30. He's trying to >RESTORE them on the same machine, now running MS-DOS 4.01. DOS backup/restore is notorious for not working with older versions. You might wish to try a shareware package call restor55.zip (on simtel20). It is a more robust version of restore that works with all versions of backup from 2.0 to 4.01. It might help you. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Mussar |Bitnet: mussar@bnr.ca | Phone: (613) 763-4937 BNR Ltd. | UUCP: ..uunet!bnrgate!bcars53!mussar | FAX: (613) 763-2626