keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (02/18/87)
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
vanzandt@uiucdcsp.UUCP (02/21/87)
Sounds unusual... I had no problems carrying out the REPLACE procedures as documented. But who knows... +=============================================================================+ | Lonnie VanZandt University of Illinois Dept. of CS (217) 333-1925 | | | | arpa vanzandt@p.cs.uiuc.edu vanzandt@uiuc.ARPA | | csnet vanzandt@uiuc.csnet | | usenet ihnp4!uiucdcs!vanzandt | +=============================================================================+