Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!esoc!rwichary Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C) Date: Tuesday, 14 May 1991 11:02:35 CET From: Message-ID: <91134.110235RWICHARY@ESOC.BITNET> Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Disk/File Utility Needed References: <1991May10.183052.29786@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Why don't you try SIMTEL20's PD1:fill30.arc Intelligent copy - fill each floppy - mass cpy It's a useful little program that gets the job done fast. I've been using an earlier version for some time, and found only one "bug" there: After copying 111 files to the root dir of your floppy, it forced you to create a new subdir and continued copying there (floppy space permitting). This is ok for a 360K 5.25" diskette, where the root dir holds only 112 entries; it's certainly annoying with HD diskettes that hold more. On the other hand, this certainly didn't happen very often. I also suspect that the new version (3.0), which is available at SIMTEL now,has done away with this "bug", since it now supports multiple drives, and many other features. I still use the old release, since it had a very nice feature, which appearently got lost on the way to the new version -or I did not read the manual good enough :). If you started "fill"ing your subdie to diskettes it would check the disk capacity and tell you right at the start, how many diskettes were needed. This is VERY useful; a pity it isn't there any more ... Summarizing, FILL is a handsome little tool, that gets the job done, and it has minor quirks, that you can easily live with.