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From: jono@dec06.cs.monash.edu.au (Jonathan Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: using "system" in C
Message-ID: <jono.670739550@dec06>
Date: 4 Apr 91 04:32:30 GMT
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I am writing a rather large program (about 550K) in C and I recently
noticed that when I called "system" in the following way

	system("copy file1 file2");

there was not enough memory to perform the copy.
Is there a way of copying files that doesn't require as much memory.
Thanks in advance
	Jon Oliver