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Article #3899Re: Bug using MSDOS 3.2 Backup - 10th disk
From: Noel Roy, Economics Dept., Memor...
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 23:44
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 23:44
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stretch.cs.mun.ca!leif!noelroy From: noelroy@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Noel Roy, Economics Dept., Memorial University) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Bug using MSDOS 3.2 Backup - 10th disk Message-ID: <144583@kean.ucs.mun.ca> Date: 11 Oct 90 23:44:03 GMT References: <1990Oct9.192042.14498@cbnewsc.att.com> Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada Lines: 28