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- Subject: Re: restore + subst does not work together :-(
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.195229.17777@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:52:29 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec22.162053.1783@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec22.162053.1783@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> weberj@dia.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Weber) writes:
- >I have backed up D:\*.* with Msdos backup to discs.
- >On my own machine I got no D: partition.
- >I'd like to have the backed up files in C:\tmp
- >CD to tmp and restore A: C: won't work.
- >With DOS 5.0 I'd enter subst d: c:\tmp and change to
- >D: and the restore works (and so I did it in the end).
- >The problem with OS/2 2.0 is, subst works only in a
- >dos shell and restore works only in an os/2 shell :-(
- >So could someone tell IBM to fix this problem, please.
- >BTW, It would be very nice if every OS/2 text mode program
- >could understand /H or /?
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- There's an OS/2 version of SUBST available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. Check the file /pub/os2/00Index for location.
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