┴ FILE COPIER WILL COPY THE CONTENTS OF A DISK IN A FILE BY FILE MANNER. ┘OU MAY SELECT WHICH FILES TO COPY OR NOT TO COPY, AND FILES ALREADY PRESENT ON THE COPY DISK WON'T BE DISTURBED. ├OPYING FILES TO A NEW DISK MAY ALSO STRAIGHTEN THEM OUT, MAKING THEM RELOAD FASTER. ╞URTHERMORE IT IS POSSIBLE TO ADJUST THE SECTOR INTERLEAVE (USING THE ╔NTERLEAVE ╙ET COMMAND) WHICH MAY FURTHER INCREASE THE SPEED. ╘HE FILE COPIER WILL WORK WITH ALL DISK DRIVES THAT CAN BE HOOKED UP TO THE 128, INCLUDING ╥┴═─╧╙. ╘HE FILE COPIER CAN COPY FILES WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS BETWEEN DISSIMILAR DRIVE TYPES.
╘HE FILE COPIER CAN COPY PROGRAM (╨╥╟) FILES, SEQUENTIAL (╙┼╤) FILES AND USER (╒╙╥) FILES. ╔T CAN NOT COPE WITH RELATIVE (╥┼╠) FILES. ╨LEASE NOTE THAT THE FILE COPIER CAN NOT HANDLE ╟┼╧╙ FILES (WHICH ARE MARKED IN THE DIRECTORY AS ╒╙╥) BECAUSE OF THEIR NON-STANDARD STRUCTURE.
╘HE FILE COPIER WILL AUTOMATICALLY DETECT IF YOUR COMPUTER IS EQUIPPED WITH 64╦ ╓─├ (80 COLUMN) ╥┴═, AND UTILIZE IT TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PASSES. ╫ILL ALSO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A ╥AM ┼XPANSION ╒NIT OF ANY SIZE IF TURNED ON AT THE ─ISK ╘OOLS MENU.
╙╨┼├╔┴╠ ╬╧╘┼ TO 1571 USERS: ╘HE ORIGINAL 1571 DISK DRIVE AND THE DRIVE INSIDE THE FIRST 128─ MODEL (THE SO-CALLED 128─ PORTABLE), BUT NOT THE ONES INSIDE THE NEWER 128─, HAS SOME QUIRKS WHICH MAY AFFECT THE PERFORMANCE OF THE FILE COPIER. ╨LEASE REFER TO ┴PPENDIX ─ FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
╙╨┼├╔┴╠ ╬╧╘┼ TO 1581 USERS: ╘HE FILE COPIER WILL FULLY SUPPORT SUBDIRECTORIES. ╔F YOU'RE USING TWO DISK DRIVES (REGARDLESS IF ONE OR BOTH ARE 1581S) THE 1581(S) WILL ACCESS THE SUBDIRECTORY (OR SUBDIRECTORIES) CURRENTLY SELECTED. ╚OWEVER, IF THE MAIN AND COPY DISK DRIVE IS ONE AND THE SAME, YOU MUST ENTER THE DIRECTORY PATHS INDIVIDUALLY. ╘HE CURSOR WILL APPEAR, AND YOU MAY ENTER THE SUBDIRECTORY NAME. ╘O USE THE ROOT DIRECTORY, PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬ AT A BLANK LINE (DO ╬╧╘ ENTER "/" IN ORDER TO SELECT THE ROOT DIRECTORY) ╒SE CURSOR LEFT/RIGHT, ╔╬╙╘, ─┼╠, ├╠╥ AND ╚╧═┼ TO EDIT IF NECESSARY. ┘OU CAN ACCESS SEVERAL LEVELS OF SUBDIRECTORIES BY SEPARATING THE DIRECTORY NAMES USING COMMAS (DIRECTORY1,DIRECTORY2,DIRECTORY3). ┘OU MUST ENTER THE WHOLE DIRECTORY PATH FROM THE ROOT ON (BUT ─╧╬'╘ SPECIFY THE ROOT ITSELF, THIS IS DONE AUTOMATICALLY). ╔F THE DRIVE CAN'T FIND ONE OF THE SUBDIRECTORIES YOU HAVE ENTERED, YOU WILL BE INFORMED ABOUT THE ERROR AND PROMPTED TO CORRECT THE DIRECTORY SPECIFICATION. ╘O COPY FILES FROM ONE SUBDIRECTORY TO ANOTHER ON THE SAME DISK, LEAVE THE SAME DISK IN THE DRIVE WHEN YOU ARE PROMPTED FOR THE TARGET DISK.
╫HEN THE FILE COPIER IS SELECTED, YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR THE SOURCE DISK (OR BOTH SOURCE AND TARGET DISK IF YOU'RE USING TWO DRIVES) AND AN OPTIONS MENU WILL APPEAR. ╘HE OPTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
┴UTOáREPLACE:
╘HE FILE COPIER WILL AUTOMATICALLY REPLACE ANY FILES ON THE COPY DISK WITH THE SAME NAMES AS THE ONES BEING COPIED TO IT.
═ULTI OUTPUT:
╫ILL LET YOU MAKE SEVERAL COPIES OF THE FILES. ┴FTER EVERY PASS YOU WILL BE ASKED IF YOU WANT TO MAKE ANOTHER COPY OF THE FILES. ╔NSERT A NEW DISK AND PRESS ┘ FOR ┘┼╙. ╔F YOU DON'T WANT ANY MORE COPIES, PRESS ╬ FOR ╬╧, AND ANOTHER READ PASS WILL BEGIN IF THERE'S MORE FILES TO BE COPIED.
─ELETE SOURCE:
╘HIS OPTION WILL LET YOU SCRATCH THE COPIED FILES FROM THE SOURCE DISK. ╒SING THIS FEATURE, THE FILES ARE EFFECTIVELY ═╧╓┼─ TO THE COPY DISK. ╘HE SCRATCH OPERATION WILL BE DONE USING AN EXTRA PASS AFTER FINISHING THE ACTUAL COPYING. ╧NLY THE FILES WHICH WERE SUCCESSFULLY COPIED WILL BE DELETED.
╨RESS THE SPACE BAR TO CONTINUE. ╘HE DIRECTORY OF THE SOURCE DISK WILL NOW BE READ INTO THE COMPUTER'S MEMORY. ╔F THERE ARE NO FILES ON THE DISK THAT THE FILE COPIER CAN COPY, THE MESSAGE "╬O VALID FILES" WILL APPEAR, AND THE FILE COPIER WILL BE ABORTED.
╨╠┼┴╙┼ ╬╧╘┼: ╘HE DISK COPIER CAN ONLY COPY ╙┼╤ (╙┼╤UENTIAL), ╨╥╟ (╨╥O╟RAM) AND ╒╙╥ (╒╙E╥) FILES (BUT ╬╧╘ ╟┼╧╙ FILES), AND ONLY THOSE TYPES WILL APPEAR ON THE DISK DIRECTORY. ╘HERE MAY WELL BE OTHER FILE TYPES ON THE DISK, BUT THEY WON'T BE DISPLAYED ON THE DISK COPIER'S DIRECTORY.
═OVE THE FLASHING CURSOR UP AND DOWN USING THE CURSOR KEYS, PRESS + AND - KEYS TO MOVE ONE PAGE UP AND DOWN RESPECTIVELY, AND ╚╧═┼ TO GO TO THE TOP OF THE DIRECTORY. ╨RESSING THE ╚╧═┼ KEY WILL PLACE THE CURSOR ON THE FIRST DIRECTORY ENTRY.
╙ELECT THE FILES YOU WANT TO COPY USING ╙╨┴├┼ (CURSOR DON'T MOVE), ╥┼╘╒╥╬ (CURSOR MOVES DOWN) OR ╙╚╔╞╘/╥┼╘╒╥╬ (CURSOR MOVES UP). ╨RESSING ANY OF THOSE KEYS ON A FILE WHICH HAS ALREADY BE SELECTED WILL UNDO THE SELECTION OF THAT FILE. ┴LL FILES CAN BE SELECTED AT ONCE BY PRESSING '┴', OR ALL FILES CAN BE DE-SELECTED BY PRESSING ├╠╥.
╘O START COPYING, PRESS ╞1. ╘HE FILE COPIER WILL START LOADING THE FILES INTO MEMORY. ╔F YOU HAVEN'T SELECTED ANY FILES, THE MESSAGE "╬O VALID FILES" WILL APPEAR, AND THE FILE COPIER IS ABORTED.
┼RRORS MAY OCCUR DURING THE READING. ╔F A FILE CAN'T BE READ, THE FILE COPIER WILL INFORM YOU ABOUT THE PROBLEM AND ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO RETRY READING THE FILE. ┘OU MAY WANT TO REMOVE THE DISK AND THEN RE-INSERT IT AS THIS MAY ALIGN THE DISK MORE CORRECTLY AND THE DISK DRIVE MIGHT JUST BE ABLE TO READ THE FILE. ╔F YOU DON'T WANT TO RETRY THE FILE, THAT FILE WILL BE SKIPPED. ╔F A FILE IS TO LARGE TO FIT INTO THE COMPUTER'S MEMORY ALTOGETHER, THE MESSAGE "╞ILE TOO LARGE" WILL APPEAR, AND THE FILE WILL HAVE TO BE SKIPPED. ┬Y THE WAY, THE FILE COPIER CAN HANDLE FILES AS LARGE AS THE AVAILABLE MEMORY, ROUGHLY 480 BLOCKS ON A OLD FLAT 128, 713 BLOCKS ON A 128─ (OR 128 WITH 64╦ ╓─├ MEMORY), OR 2776 IF YOU ADD A 512╦ ╥┼╒.
╫HEN THE COMPUTER MEMORY IS FILLED UP (OR THERE'S NO MORE FILES TO BE READ) THE COMPUTER WILL PROMPT YOU FOR THE TARGET DISK. ╔F YOU'RE USING TWO DRIVES HOWEVER, THE COPY PROCESS WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT DELAY.
┴GAIN, ERRORS WHEN SAVING FILES TO THE TARGET DISK MAY OCCUR. ╘HE FILE COPIER WILL MONITOR HOW MUCH SPACE THERE'S LEFT ON THE DISK, AND INFORM YOU IF THE SPACE IS INSUFFICIENT. ╔F A FILE CAN'T BE WRITTEN PROPERLY, THE FILE COPIER WILL INFORM YOU ABOUT THE PROBLEM AND ASK YOU IF YOU WANT TO RETRY WRITING THE FILE. ┘OU MAY THEN ELECT TO SKIP THE FILE, TRY AGAIN, OR INSERT A NEW TARGET DISK TO CONTINUE. ╔F THE FILE EXISTS, YOU WILL BE ASKED IF YOU WANT TO REPLACE THE FILE. ╘HE EXISTING FILE IS ERASED, AND THE NEW FILE (THE ONE BEING COPIED FROM THE SOURCE DISK) WILL THEN BE WRITTEN.
╨╠┼┴╙┼ ╬╧╘┼: ─ESPITE ╘╚┼ ╙┼╥╓┴╬╘S SAFEGUARD SYSTEM, THERE ARE TWO REASONS WHY YOU MIGHT ENCOUNTER THE ERROR MESSAGE "DISK FULL". ╙OME DISK DRIVES HAS A QUIRK WHICH THROWS UP THIS ERROR IF YOU TRY TO SAVE A NEW FILE WHEN THE NUMBER OF BLOCKS FREE ARE 3 OR LESS. ╘HE ERROR MESSAGE WILL ALSO APPEAR IF YOU EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF FILES ALLOWED ON THE DISK. ╒NFORTUNATELY, ODD THINGS SOMETIMES HAPPENS TO THE DISK IN THESE CASES, ESPECIALLY IN THE LATTER CASE. ╘O BE SAFE IT IS PROBABLY BEST TO VALIDATE THE DISK IF YOU ENCOUNTER THE "DISK FULL" ERROR MESSAGE WITH THE FILE COPIER. ╙O FAR, ╔ HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO CIRCUMVENT THOSE PROBLEMS.
╘HE FILE COPIER WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO AVOID ERROR CONDITIONS ON THE COPY DISK. ╔T WILL EVEN VALIDATE THE DISK IF FOUND TO BE NECESSARY TO RECOVER SAFELY FROM AN ERROR.
╔F THERE ARE MORE FILES TO BE COPIED THAN WOULD FIT IN THE COMPUTER'S AVAILABLE MEMORY, YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR THE SOURCE DISK (UNLESS YOU'RE USING TWO DRIVES) AND ANOTHER PASS WILL BE PERFORMED FOR AS MANY TIMES OVER AS NECESSARY TO COPY ALL THE FILES.
