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Article #758Re: Single FDD as A: and B: [Was: External 5.25 inch floppy drive for computer?]
From: Phred
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:51
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:51
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In article <njtah01ktkdvousq8r5otmlf2cca5ebvqa@4ax.com>, Ardent <iam@here.com> wrote: >On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:38:14 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) >wrote: > >>1. COPY picked up the file okay from A: and asked for a disk in B: >>2. Put disk in "B:" and got screen flash as DOS went to full screen! >>3. It then asked for disk in A: and checked it out. >>4. After a bit more of this A:/B: stuff at full screen it actually >>made the copy okay, but the process was less than convincing! > >IMHO it is because the copy command can only handle 64kb at a time and >for files larger than this one has to swap the disks many times. If that's what was going on -- and from what it did it, sounds rewasonable -- then I'm bloody glad I used a relatively small set of test files and not a full floppy of them! :-) Cheers, Phred. -- ppnerkDELETE@THISyahoo.com.INVALID
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