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Ian B Staples (staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au) wrote:
: Friend is upgrading his old Epson 386 running MSDOS to a new Osborne
: Pentium machine running PCDOS 6.3.  He is a bit worried about transferring
: everything from the old to the new.  How easily can it be done?

: He has a backup set created with MSDOS 3.3 backup.  Is it possible to
: read this format with some sort of "restore" under PCDOS 6.3?  (I guess
: he will get some sort of manual with the new gear, but he is anticipating
: problems :)

  That has always messed. No doubt you know that running backup/restore 
between different major versions won't happen. But lookup the SETVER 
instruction for DOS 6, and bring an UNBACKEDUP copy of backup/restore from 
your source system (DOS 3.3) use SETVER, and run the 3.3 restore on 6.3

  Another guy suggests running DOS 6 backup from a floppy on the source 
(DOS 3.3) system, which is probably the best answer. 

  At least twice I've done backups with DOS 3.3 and been unable to restore.
I had to patch the disks with debug before I could load. The problem was
a new file in a new directory when there was no space left on the backup
diskette (bug), so it stored a 0-byte sized piece on the diskette, and 
started on the next one. All well and good, but restore didn't like that at
all. Had to reboot, 'cos it went into a 'guru meditation' ...

  Backup with DOS 6.3 off floppy, I don't know how good that backup routine
is, but it's real nice (MS bought it from someone else - it's not theirs)
and 6 is bigger than 3. Later version, and 3rd party makes it a better 
bet than DOS 3.3 backup. I won't touch that one again.

		Choc Dee, Lance