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From: rrd@hpfcso.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Better Copy Utility?
Message-ID: <7340015@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 90 21:08:22 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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> Can anyone tell me where I can ftp a faster copy utility from? I have a
> regular ST1040, and the one-file-at-a-time swap-diskettes-til-you-bleed
> method is doing me harm. Thanks in advance.

I always use a huge RAMdisk when I'm doing floppy copies.  That way I only
have to swap once.  

I heard that TOS 1.4 does it right, using all available RAM as a buffer to
minimize disk swaps, but I havent' gotten up the nerve to try it yet.

Ray Depew
rrd@hpfitst1.hp.com
"Well okay, maybe it doesn't, but doggone it, it SHOULD!"