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- From: cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI)
- Subject: Moving files to floppy
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.154911.2236@a.cs.okstate.edu>
- Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 15:49:11 GMT
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- I tried (and seeming succeeded) copying a large directory of small files
- to floppy. I got prompted when a disk was full, and things went pretty well...
- Except: I kept on getting error messages that the files I was copying
- were in use. Odd... I'm rather certain they weren't.
-
- Is there a better way to do this? A "backup" that won't split files or
- "tokenize" them in an odd way?
-
- (No... I'm not an ex-DOS user. I just dragged the icons from the
- subdir they were in to the a: icon on the desktop)
-
- Is there a "move" or "copy" command that will allow for a new disk
- to be inserted when a file won't fit on the present disk?
-
- (I'm hoping to reformat HPFS... but need to salvage SOME (not all) files.)
-
- jc
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