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Article #6656A Bigger Better DISKCOPY?
From: Dwight Johns
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:05
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:05
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I'm not sure if anyone here will be able to help me this, but from time to time, I have to do quite a few DISKCOPY's due in part to my really wierd backup procedure (but that's not important right now). I usually just use the plain old standard DISKCOPY command from the dos prompt, but I only have one of each drive type so I wind up switching disks alot. I can't speak for everyone here, but I really hate switching disks. Anyway, I am curious if there is a patch that I could write to DISKCOPY or if there is a third party program that performs the same function that would utilize the 8 megs of ram in my system and get me out of that disk switching rut. I called the goofs at the Microsoft customer support center (customer annoyance center would be more like it) and they said that they had never looked into making DISKCOPY break the first 640k. I realize that DOS is *only* ten years old and that we never really needed more that 640k before Windows, but I can't be the only one that's ever been really hacked off about this. Thanks in advance for any help on this... Oh, and while I'm complaining and I have your attention, why does the copy command still say such things like "1 File(s) Copied"? You'd think they could have at least corrected this tragic grammer problem sometime in the last decade... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Dwight Snake Doward Johns | Mark my words : "When the snipers attack, | | dsjohns@uswnvg.uswnvg.com | ---===> The Pintos with the wood | | ------------------------- | ---===> on the sides will be the | | Have a nice day!!! | ---===> first to go..." | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uswnvg!nv10.uswnvg.com!dsjohns From: dsjohns@uswnvg.com (Dwight Johns) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: A Bigger Better DISKCOPY? Message-ID: <2871@uswnvg.uswnvg.com> Date: 23 Nov 92 21:05:32 GMT Sender: news@uswnvg.uswnvg.com Organization: U S WEST NewVector Group, Inc. Lines: 28 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5