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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Drive partitioning (really DOS bugs)
Message-ID: <889@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 12:19:05 EST
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.889
Posted: Wed Dec 11 12:19:05 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 20:30:50 EST
References: <11170@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <281@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr
Lines: 13
Keywords: DOS, backup, restore
Summary: Dos backup and restore known to have bugs

In article <281@ur-tut.UUCP> pier@ur-tut.UUCP (Pierre Darmon) writes:
>I have been using DOS 3.0 for over a year and 3.1 for over 5 months with no
>problem whatsoever. 

The backup and restore commands seem to be buggy when it comes to
dealing with large files.  This was a problem with DOS 3.0 that 3.1 was
supposedly going to fix, but it's still there.  Wise users do not
depend on IBM's backup command!
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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