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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Disk/File Utility Needed
Message-ID: <1991May11.091341.6643@uwasa.fi>
Date: 11 May 91 09:13:41 GMT
References: <1991May10.183052.29786@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1991May10.183052.29786@zip.eecs.umich.edu> mrice@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Michael Rice) writes:
>I am looking for a program that will look at certain specified
>files in a directory then copy them to a floppy doing its best
>to fill the floppy up completely.  It would have to choose files
>to copy based on the free space on the floppy.
>
>Does something like this exist?  If so let me know about it,
>if not I'll have to write it myself I guess.

pcopy###.zip (see directories /pc/diskutil and /pc/goldies at garbo,
or the relevant one at Simtel20, which is nearer you) can be used
also for this purpose.  Since it is a multipurpose copier, this does
not necessarrly preclude writing a specialized utility for it. 

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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