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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Problems with REPLACE (was Re: Patch for ctrl-U and ctrl-W for Dos)
Message-ID: <2096@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 20:48:10 EST
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2096
Posted: Tue Feb 17 20:48:10 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Feb-87 07:32:38 EST
References: <492@puff.WISC.EDU> <75800022@uiucdcsp>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <75800022@uiucdcsp> vanzandt@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>	The following is from page 3-4 of the PC-DOS 3.2 manual:
>
>Use the REPLACE command to replace previous versions of DOS with DOS 3.2...
>...
>3. To replace existing DOS files on your fixed disk, type the following and
>	press Enter.
>	replace a:\*.* c: /s /r
>4. To add the new DOS 3.2 files, type the following and press Enter.
>	replace a:\*.* c:\[path] /a

Except when I went from 3.1 to 3.21 I found my hard disk subdirectories
to be unreadable by the newer DOS. It was long enough ago that (a) I don't
remember what the exact nature of the problem was and (b) I don't remember
how I got around it. (I think I ended up acquiring a spare hard disk, hard
formatting it under 3.21, installing both hard disks, and then using 3.1 to
copy the files to the 3.21-formatted drive. But I'm not sure.)

Anyway, I felt I'd been led astray by the REPLACE command documentation. 

But when you get old, it's easy to get confuzeded.

keith