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Article #759Re: Single FDD as A: and B: [Was: External 5.25 inch floppy drive for computer?]
From: Ardent
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 00:46
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 00:46
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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. HTH -- Sandy Archer Reply to newsgroups only
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