Scott Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:22:39 -0800 (PST)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
>
>
I'm
restoring files from VHS backup tapes. The files were all
originally stored and backed up from the root directory. On the tapes
I used to test my process, none had more than 512 files archived. The
backup software only restores *to the same exact drive and path* that
the files were archived from (in this case C:\). I'm running into
some tapes that have more than 512 files backed up frm the root
directory. These were done back in the 1980s. I can't figure out how
they did it, but there they are.
Couldn't you use the DOS subst command to fake out the C: drive to some
higher-level folder, i.e. make your D:\scratch folder into the C: drive?
Directories don't have the filesystem limits that the root directory of
C: does.
This of course, would 'map over' your C: drive (is that allowed by subst
?)
1. If you had one of the multi-user dos clones, you could then
move the files out of the root directory while it was loading
new ones in. You'd have to be careful not to move one that was
being created.
Maybe you could write a TSR that would do that for you
under normal DOS.
2. Does FreeDOS (
http://freedos.org) have something that
would help? Maybe a different file system.