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From: dls@genco.bungi.com (Dave L. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Better DOS programs, anyone?  (so I can scrap doscp)
Message-ID: <700@genco.bungi.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 20:07:16 GMT
References: <699@genco.bungi.com> <278@bria.UUCP>
Reply-To: dls@genco.bungi.com (Dave L. Smith)
Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, MO
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In article <278@bria.UUCP> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>Part of the problem may be that you are using /dev/install to read the
>floppy (which is slower because it goes about figuring the density of
>the diskette it is reading); using the explicit device name can speed things
>up a bit (but not much, mind you! :-)
>
>For example ...
>
>	doscp /dev/fd096ds15:/dos/is/evil /tmp

Well, thanks, but the REAL deficiency is when I copy to/from a DOS hard
disk partition.  I would assume that doscp would not use /dev/install
to get c:/dos/is/evil :-)  Anyhow, it's just another one of those things
that I guess I'll have to live with.

Dave Smith


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