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In article <jcmorris.726327474@mwunix> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
>I suspect that your problem is not a missing file but the volume serial
>numbers.  A 3-1/2" HD diskette can obviously hold the entire contents
>of a 5-1/4" disk, so you should be able to copy the disks with the COPY
>command (no subdirectories exist, so XCOPY isn't needed), then make
>sure that each target disk is assigned the volume label of the disk
>from which it was copied...and watch the spaces.  The volume labels
>are probably of the form:
>
>  DISK      1
>
>Note all the embedded spaces.  Check each disk as you copy it and
>use the LABEL command to write the appropriate label to your 3-1/2" disk.

This only works if the 3.5" disks have less than 1.2m of files.

Some product distributions are different for 3.5 & 5.25, including
the index files which says which volume to find which files on,
so copying like this does not always work.  (If you're going
from 3.5 to 5.25 -- the other way around should not be a problem.)

Whether it works for the DOS 5.0 upgrade I have no idea.


		-Richard Hartman
		hartman@ulogic.COM

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