Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!julian!deepthot!caper
From: caper@deepthot.UUCP (Greg <Caper> Kiech)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Copying Diskettes
Summary: Can CP/M diskettes be copied with an IBM PC?
Keywords: diskettes, copy, IBM PC
Message-ID: <1144@deepthot.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 08:28:52 GMT
Reply-To: caper@deepthot.UUCP (Greg <Caper> Kiech)
Organization: UWO CS, London Canada
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Posted: Thu Apr  7 03:28:52 1988


I have some 5 1/4 inch diskettes, containing CP/M programs, which I would
like to copy.  The problem is that I do not have access to a CP/M machine
at the moment.  Is there any way to copy these using an IBM PC?  I have two
programs for the IBM called "Copy Write" (by McQuaid, I believe), and 
"Copy II PC".  These are so called "bit-copiers", not file copiers.

It is my hope that such utilities will not attempt to format the disk, but
will simply copy the contents, CP/M format and all, without doing any
checkng.  Does anyone out there know if either of these will successfully 
make the copy?

Thanks in advance.

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Greg Kiech                        |   
Graduate Studies, Comp. Sci.      |   caper@deepthot.UUCP
University of Western Ontario     |