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From: john@musocs.UUCP (John Kirkpatrick)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS "copy"
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Date: Fri, 2-May-86 22:22:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  2 22:22:20 1986
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Summary: copy a:filename b: should work.

In article <233@drutx.UUCP>, dsc@drutx.UUCP (DavisCS) writes:
> 
> My pc is configured with a floppy (a:) and a hard disk (c:). Frequently
> I need to copy files SELECTIVELY from one floppy to another. The
> procedure I use is to first copy them from drive (a) to (c) and then
> from drive (c) to the "new floppy" in drive (a).
> 
> Seems like there should be a variation of "copy" that will move the
> files from drive (a) into a memory buffer until full, prompt me to
> insert the "copy to" diskette, write out the buffer, and so on till
> done.
> 

Seems to me that with this configuration, you should be able to type

		copy a:filename b:

to get the job done. DOS treats the one floppy drive as both a: and b:
and will prompt you to change diskettes when it needs to write to the    
other drive.

Hope this helps.