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From: jcclark@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (CURTIS CLARK)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: diskcopy
Keywords: diskcopy windows memory
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Date: 20 Dec 90 22:08:38 GMT
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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.