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From: cctr132@canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: XCOPY /S across diff't disk formats??
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.194748.9380@canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 11 Oct 90 08:29:20 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury
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Dear Netlanders,

I've been looking around a couple of ftp sites for a copy utility that will
copy ALL of the files AND their associated directory structure from one disk to
another (here comes the tricky bit) AND allow you to do so across disk formats.

By way of example:  A student has some files on high-density 5 1/4 disks and
wants to copy these to double-density 3 1/2 disks so s/he can read them in the
drive on a laptop.  The 5 1/4 disks are nearly full (approx 1 Meg) so the
files have to be split across TWO 3 1/2 disks.

DOS's XCOPY meets the first two criteria but falls over when the target is
full, as do a couple of programs I found.

I found several hopeful sounding cadidates, but none are quite up to all of the
requirements.  The two disk formats mentioned above are solely by way of
example - with over 9000 students on campus we get all possible combinations at
our file transfer service.

An ftp site for your *favourite* such util would be much appreciated, as our
operators are getting a bit sick of doing it the long way with high to med.
density transfers. 

AdvTHANKthankTHANKthankTHANKance,

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