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"C J Campbell" wrote

I always thought the most wicked command in DOS was "restore." I fell
victim to it myself, and I know others who made the same mistake. It does
not restore anything.

I had never heard of that one. What *does* it do?
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Jim in NC

On 2007-12-16 01:48:28 -0800, "Morgans" said:


"C J Campbell" wrote

I always thought the most wicked command in DOS was "restore." I fell
victim to it myself, and I know others who made the same mistake. It does
not restore anything.

I had never heard of that one. What *does* it do?

Sorry. I meant RECOVER. It renames all the files on the drive to just a
sequential number and moves them all to the root directory. So you end
up with all the files in the root, no subdirectories left (they were
renamed, too), and all the files have names like 000123.REC,
000124.REC, 000125.REC, etc.

It is intended to recover all the readable files on a drive that has
bad sectors. It should be used with a filename argument, such as
RECOVER [path][filename] and it will recover the usable parts of that
file.

Recover was eventually replaced by SCANDISK, which was somewhat less
dangerous to use.

The DOS RESTORE command restores files from a backup made with the
BACKUP command.
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