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A Bigger Better DISKCOPY?

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From: Dwight Johns
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...

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Subject: A Bigger Better DISKCOPY?
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