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From: curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Jeffrey Curtis )
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Subject: Re: Copy ][+ 9.0 problem
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Date: 18 Jun 91 14:46:36 GMT
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In article <91168.162022AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET> AABENSON@MTUS5.BITNET writes:
>Well, what happens, is Copy II+, being the ignorant and retarded program
>that it is...
>
>(Can anyone tell that C2+ isn't my favorite program?)  :-)
>
>It's slow, too.
>
>                                                           - Andrew.

You're not the only one who feels this way about C2+.  About two years ago,
I finally got fed up with the program's utter lack of power and said,
"Somebody really should write a better program."  Unfortunately, "someone"
ended up having to be me.  I wrote "Heatseeker", a P8 disk utility program
the destroys Copy //+ in almost every aspect, except for displays and
whatnot.  But when it comes to speed, I win hands-down:  where Copy //+
will take 15-20 minutes to perform a certain task (delete a hundred files,
copy files within a disk, etc.) my program does it all in less than ten
seconds.  "Really?" you say.  "So why haven't we seen this commercially?"
The answer is simple:  I wrote it in assembly, which means that every time
I want to add something (and no program's ever *really* complete, is it?),
I have to spend forever doing it, and it's *frustrating*.  I'd be willing
to toss a copy around for people to play with, but like all greedy
programmers, I wrote it with my hardware in mind, so I don't want the
liability of trashing someone's hard drive hanging over my head.  (Which
brings up another point - when I said "15 to 20 minutes", I was referring
to floppy drives, of course.  I've never seen C2+ on a hard drive).

Alas, the trials of laziness..  if anyone's interested in the program,
or wants to give me a big, fat contract to finish it B^) , drop me some
mail..

Jeff

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