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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Better DOS programs, anyone?  (so I can scrap doscp)
Message-ID: <137@omen.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 91 00:35:10 GMT
References: <699@genco.bungi.com>
Organization: Omen Technology INC
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In article <699@genco.bungi.com> dls@genco.bungi.com (Dave L. Smith) writes:
-I can't take it any more.  On SCO Xenix 2.3.3, my doscp takes SO
-long to copy files!  Sometimes it runs out of memory!  Is there an

The doscp program is a bit quadratic.  It does seem that Unix
programs tend to be a bit quadratic dealing with floppies unless
they can be made to use a track at a time.

Now that the 286 is Dead, perhaps someone can hack soem doscp
program that buffers a track in memory, or perhaps caches the
entire floppy.

Since I have Merge and Vp/ix I don't need to do the hacking myself.