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Re: Disk copy in OS/2

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From: Kasey S. Osborn
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 18:50
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In article <13310@cbnewse.ATT.COM> rtb89@cbnewse.ATT.COM (roy.t.bradstrum)
writes:
>
>I am fairly new to OS/2 (just installed 1.2 on my homemade
>PC clone last Sunday) and I have a question about
>copying a floppy disk from drive a: to drive a:. Instead
>of just storing up all of the contents in ram (I have
>4meg) the copy command takes about 256k at a time and
>keeps asking me to swap disks. I am sure that an equivalent

You might want to look at DSKCPY2 available through anonymous FTP from
mtsg.ubc.ca (128.189.103.1) in the OS2 directory.

Kasey
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From: osbornk@mist.cs.orst.edu (Kasey S. Osborn)
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Subject: Re: Disk copy in OS/2
Keywords: floppy disk copy
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