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- From: damien@reg.triumf.ca (DAMIEN GALLOP)
- Subject: Re: help needed on drdos update
- Message-ID: <5SEP199211531977@reg.triumf.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:53:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.192539.2771@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, dhiggs@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (General Protection Fault) writes...
- >
- >In article <1992Aug31.174636.13220@unixg.ubc.ca> wangf@unixg.ubc.ca (Frank Wang
- >) writes:
- >+This help.wanted may not belong to this group but I'm desperated to
- >+seek some help.
- >+
- >+My computer crashed so I have to reload the DRDOS. To make it compatible
- >+with WINDOWS 3.1, I have to run a UPDATE.BAT file. The problem is
- >+that the two hidden file, IMBBIO.COM & IBMDOS.COM could not be updated
- >+(I could see it by date). I also ran REPLACE.EXE to update those two
- >+hidden files, but the reply was 'access denied.' I have no idea why
- >+it went through so easily but this time so difficult. If someone out
- >+there know the reason, please help me.
- >+
- >+Thanks in advance.
- >+
- >+Frank
-
- Try ATTRIB -R IBM*.COM first. Also, I had to edit UPDATE.BAT a bit to
- accomodate my partitions. (DRDOS is on D:, which is compressed. C: isn't.)
- this may or may not apply in your case. Cheers.
-
- damien@reg.triumf.ca
-