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- From: pod@cadvision.com (Prince of Darkness)
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- Subject: Re: Various Questions for DOS Programming...HELP NEEDED
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 21:55:59 GMT
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- trauschu@cs.trinity.edu (Megaman) wrote:
- >(3) What is the best way to perform a file "COPY" instruction? Should I make
- >a call to system(), or should I try to make my program more internal by
- >writing my own "COPY" procedure? If so, what is teh best way to do this?
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- ------- Well, I can help you with this one. THe best way to make your
- own copy command is to open the two files [one for read and one for
- write] and read from the source file in large blocks, say 32 or 64K.
- Then write those blocks to the destination file.
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