edw@cbnewsc.att.com (Edwin.D.Windes@ATT.COM) (10/10/90)
I think I remember seeing this bug mentioned (a long time ago) somewhere on the net. I'm using AT&T MSDOS 3.2 R2.02 (and can't switch to a newer version.) When I try to RESTORE from a set of BACKUP floppies, RESTORE dies on the 10th disk. It looks like BACKUP is writing "0:" in the disk ID instead of "10", and restore is choking on it. Has anyone else run into this problem? Anyone have a patch? thanks, Ed Windes (e.windes@att.com)
prs@io.UUCP (Paul Schmidt) (10/12/90)
In article <1990Oct9.192042.14498@cbnewsc.att.com> edw@cbnewsc.att.com (Edwin.D.Windes@ATT.COM) writes: > (stuff about problems with DOS BACKUP and RESTORE) > >Has anyone else run into this problem? Anyone have a patch? > Many people have run into many problems with BACKUP and RESTORE. The patch? Get a different archiver program.
noelroy@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Noel Roy, Economics Dept., Memorial University) (10/12/90)
In article <1990Oct9.192042.14498@cbnewsc.att.com>, edw@cbnewsc.att.com (Edwin.D.Windes@ATT.COM) writes: > I think I remember seeing this bug mentioned (a long time > ago) somewhere on the net. I'm using AT&T MSDOS 3.2 R2.02 > (and can't switch to a newer version.) > > When I try to RESTORE from a set of BACKUP floppies, RESTORE > dies on the 10th disk. > > It looks like BACKUP is writing "0:" in the disk ID instead > of "10", and restore is choking on it. > > Has anyone else run into this problem? Anyone have a patch? > > thanks, > Ed Windes (e.windes@att.com) I once had a problem where BACKUP would write 0D 0A instead of 0A for the month of October. Apparently the programmer forgot to type the variable as binary. I used a sector editor (Norton Utilities or PCTools) to rewrite the BACKUPID file on the backup disks. This worked fine. -- Dr. Noel Roy bitnet: NOELROY@MUN Department of Economics internet: noelroy@kean.ucs.mun.ca Memorial University of Newfoundland cdnnet: noelroy@kean.mun.cdn St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 5S7 Canada