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Re: MSDOS 3.3 Backup: Can it be restored under PCDOS 6.3 ?

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From: LE Dong Phuong
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 16:08
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No need for all the hassle.  Use the spanning option by PKZIP204 and it 
will work regardless of PCDOS or MSDOS, version 3 or 6.x

g wayne nichols (gwn@cyber1.servtech.com) wrote:


: You don't even have to risk that.
: Don't BOOT from the MSDOS 3.3 floppy; just copy the MSDOS 3.3 version of
: RESTORE to a floppy. Then use that program to restore the backup diskettes
: on the PCDOS 6.3 system. I doubt if you will have any complaints from the
: RESTORE software about the DOS version, but if you do, just use SETVER
: to fix it.

: This solution will work with any disk compression, also.
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