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To: PMS Witch who wrote (4006)	6/11/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	of 110626

PMS Witch - the real reason you don't want to restore a swap file is that it is meaningless to a system that doesn't have anything running on it. As I understand it, it is just temporary work space for memory management. If you are restoring it, you're in effect restoring what the system had been swapping in and out of memory at the time of the backup - not very useful because the contents could change dramatically if you were running other applications during the backup (something I consider to be a no no!!). BTW, if memory serves (sorry, bad pun!), the swap file contents are ignored (useless) to a system at the time it starts up, so restoring anything into it is functionally useless. HOWEVER, you don't want to mess with the contents while the big W is running - I believe it is protected. Also, DOS backups are not as safe as the kinds of "rescue" disks you can create with things like Nuts and Bolts - in DOS, you cannot see whole file names and there are also hidden files that don't get backed up! Perhaps someone else knows more - Mr. K.

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