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From: dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Better Copy Utility?
Message-ID: <5904@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Oct 90 10:41:53 GMT
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Reply-To: dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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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.

On the subject of disk file manipulation, I would like to implement a move
command which, if the target is on the same floppy as the source, re-links
the directory entries rather than doing a copy/delete. Is it possible to
do this or will GEMDOS buffering confuse things? If buffering is a problem,
is there a way to tell GEMDOS its buffers are no longer valid?

Dave.
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