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From: jgreco@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Can REL files be copied?
Keywords: REL, rel, copy, fnord, 1571, 1581
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Date: 14 Apr 89 01:01:08 GMT
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In comp.sys.cbm article <6570@cbmvax.UUCP>, fred@cbmvax.UUCP (Fred Bowen) wrote:
>Sure- there are two copy programs on 1571 and 1581 test/demo diskettes which
>are capable of doing this:  Butterfield's UNICOPY and Commodore's FILECOPY.
>Why aren't you using the 1581 with the BBS?  It's faster, has greater capacity
>(size, number of files, and maximum size of REL files), and it costs less.

Butterfield's UNI-COPY (read COPY-ALL, to avoid confusion with his
UNI-COPY single drive program of long ago) corrupts the end of record
pointers.  I've never seen this "FILECOPY" program, it certainly was
NOT on my 1571 test/demo disk (and I haven't seen it on any 1581 disks.)

1581's are fair for BBS use.  I still prefer IEEE drives... ;-)  Three
8050's and a 2040 are still faster.
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