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From: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS "copy"
Message-ID: <113@ima.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-May-86 23:14:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  6 23:14:36 1986
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Summary: copy from floppy to floopy using pseudo-drive B:

In article <233@drutx.UUCP> dsc@drutx.UUCP (DavisCS) writes:
>Have I overlooked something obvious???
>
>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).

It's easy to do what you want, though perhaps not obvious.  All MS-DOS
machines have two diskette drives, even when they don't.  If they don't, the
one real drive is time-shared between A: and B:.  That means that to copy
a file from one floppy to another, merely type:

	copy a:file.ext b:

and it will copy the file, prompting you to put in the A: disk and then the
B: disk.  Copy reads big chunks so usually one disk swap per file is enough.
-- 
John R. Levine, Javelin Software Corp., Cambridge MA +1 617 494 1400
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