Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!rice!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!letni!utacfd!evax!cs4344af From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: copy command Message-ID: <1991Feb6.223642.19344@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 6 Feb 91 22:36:42 GMT References: <58228@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 24 In article <58228@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> 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 > The COPY command in Basic 7.0 does the same thing as the DOS COPY command, of the form 'C0:newfile=oldfile'. It cannot copy a file from one drive to another; it can only copy a file from one place on a drive to another place on the same drive. To copy files from one drive to another you must use a program to load the file into memory and save it on the other drive, such as the LOAD/SAVE commands that you used, or a file-copying program like Maverick or FasTrac. -- begin 644 .signature H5&AI