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Article #7736Re: diskcopy
From: CURTIS CLARK
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 22:08
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 22:08
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In article <1037@earth.cs.utexas.edu>, lhmaddox@cs.utexas.edu (Lawrence H. Maddox Jr.) writes... >I am running Windows 3 on a 386 with 6 MB of memory. When I select the >diskcopy option from the file manager, it sometimes takes more than one >pass to copy a 720K diskette. It seems that without much else running >it should be able to copy not only 720K diskettes in one pass, but even >1.44M diskettes. > >Is there some reason for this?? Diskcopy is an ordinary DOS program, which restricts it to whatever portion of 640k Windows gives it, no matter how much extended or expanded memory might be available. >Is there some public domain diskcopy program that will utilize more >available memory during diskcopies? If you find one, please let us know.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed!intelhf!ichips!inews!iwarp.intel.com!csun!csun!nic.csu.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!lhmaddox From: jcclark@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (CURTIS CLARK) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: diskcopy Keywords: diskcopy windows memory Message-ID: <1990Dec20.220838.14109@csun.edu> Date: 20 Dec 90 22:08:38 GMT Sender: news@csun.edu (News Administrator) Reply-To: jcclark@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu Organization: California Polytechnic University - Pomona Lines: 17