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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: copy command
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.003315.9614@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 00:33:15 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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hinkle@acsu.buffalo.edu (steven j hinkle) writes:
>    This may seem like a strange question, but I was tring to copy
>a file from one drive (1581) to the another drive (1571) using the 
>basic 7.0 command copy like this.
>   
>           COPY "sourcefile" TO "targetfile",U9

This command doesn't do what you want it to.  What the COPY command is is an
implementation of the disk command "C:", which copies a file within a disk
drive.  What's the point, you ask?  Well, it was originally designed to
work with DUAL disk drives, so you could copy files quickly between disks
that way.  However, if anyone has ever seen a 1582 or a 1572, they need
to visit an optician.  So, basically, the COPY command is mostly useless.

To copy between drives, you will need to have some copy utility.  I recommend
Randy Winchester's KeyDOS and KeyDOS utility, which are available via anonymous
ftp from milton.u.washington.edu.  This will do what you want, as well as a
whole bunch of other useful things.

-Rob Knop
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu