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- March 4, 1986
-
- Instructions for COPY2.PRG
-
- Program and documentation by David Duberman
-
- This program was inspired by a public domain program
- called COPY.PRG, written in assembler and distributed with two
- excellent RAMdisk programs by the same author. Unfortunately,
- the original COPY.PRG copies a byte at a time, so even in
- assembler works rather slowly. COPY2.PRG was written in OSS
- Personal Pascal, and uses a GEMDOS call to copy up to 32,000
- bytes in one fell swoop. The result is an increase in copying
- speed of at least 300%! Since most people will be using this to
- copy files to drive C: (RAMdisk), this program avoids making you
- specify this in the list of files to be copied. Changing the
- destination drive spec is as simple as changing a character in
- the source file (COPY2.PAS) and recompiling.
-
- This program is intended to be placed in an AUTO folder
- after placing a RAMdisk program in the folder. When run, it
- reads an ASCII list of files to be copied to drive C:. The name
- of the list should be FILE.LST and it should appear in the root
- directory of the boot disk.
-
- If you use ST Writer to create the list, print it to disk
- with top, left, and bottom margins of 0, a right margin of 80,
- and page length (^Y) of 2. If you use First Word, turn off WP
- mode before saving the file. You can include path information,
- e.g. A:\UTILS\JUNK.PRG is permissible.
-
- After creating the FILE.LST list, create an AUTO folder
- on the disk and copy a RAMdisk program into it. Michtron M-Disk
- works fine, but you may want to use one of the public domain
- RAMdisks that do not require you to specify a size for the disk
- when run. Then copy COPY2.PRG into the folder. Of course, the
- files to be copied should also be on the boot disk, or else on a
- disk in drive B: upon booting. You may then copy any files you
- want run automatically after the copy program into the AUTO
- folder.
-
- Then boot this disk, and all your files will be copied to
- the RAMdisk automatically, and FAST.
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