Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!sdrc!scjones From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Can any other program read DOS backups? Keywords: backups Message-ID: <835@sdrc.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 21:39:50 GMT References: <605@aablue.UUCP> Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati Lines: 21 In article <605@aablue.UUCP>, jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia) writes: > If this question has come up before, please forgive the intrusion, but > a customer of mine has had some problems with DOS's BACKUP program. > While we already switched them to another program, they would still > like (and desperately need) to read a couple of their old disks. Is > such a thing available or does anybody know how to restore from the > middle of a backup sequence. DOS Backup and Restore are severely brain-damaged in a large number of very subtle ways. The only serious attempt to address this problem is a restore program which was written by Roedy Green of Canadian Mind Products. I don't have details or an address/phone number handy, but I'll dig them out tonight and post them. ---- Larry Jones UUCP: uunet!sdrc!scjones SDRC scjones@SDRC.UU.NET 2000 Eastman Dr. BIX: ltl Milford, OH 45150-2789 AT&T: (513) 576-2070 "I have plenty of good sense. I just choose to ignore it." -Calvin