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From: ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Cliff Tuel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: COPY and a ProDOS modem driver.
Keywords: modem driver, copy
Message-ID: <1989Dec15.222013.28896@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 89 22:20:13 GMT
References: <1019@ac.dal.ca> <9543@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Cliff Tuel)
Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
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brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) said...
|In article <1019@ac.dal.ca> mlarken@ac.dal.ca writes:
|>     I've been looking for a variety of routines which, to date, I haven't
|>found in the public domain.  I was wondering if anyone knows of:
|>       (1) a ProDOS-8 COPY routine (to run on a 128K unextended //e)
|>           preferably in the form of a patch -- maybe over some less-
|>           used ProDOS commands in BASIC.SYSTEM, or as an &-vector.

|Now on to his question, there is a COPY routine with the new Kermit package.
|But I don't like it.  The COPied files have TODAY's date and time.  This is
|a drawback because I don't really care to know what day I decided to copy a
|file, I want to know its original creation and latest modification time stamps.
|I don't count copying a file as creation or modification.
|
|Does anyone have a patch for the Kermit COPY.SYSTEM, or any copy utility
|(other than Copy II Plus) which preserves the time stamps?

	I have a public domain COPY program, in the form of a ProDOS
	external command.  I'm not sure if it preserves date stamps.
	And right now I don't have it with me.  But when I find it
	(maybe early January), I'll post it to comp.binaries.apple2 
	for you.


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