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- This is release 1.1 of "docp" (a Directory-Oriented CoPy program,
- formerly known as "mcp"). The reason for the name change is to
- reflect that Monk Software no longer supports this program in any way.
- 'mcp' was released as freeware before, so this should not be a big
- impact to anyone.
-
- There are several new options in this release as well as a few bug
- fixes. Copying large (i.e. bigger than the target media) files is now
- supported through the '-l' and '-j' options. The target directoy can
- also be cleared out before the copy using '-z' (zap). The bug-fixes
- include a couple involving the check ('-c') option and one involving
- the target directory, if it did not previously exist, not being
- created.
-
- I hope this program is useful. I find it to be so. Please send
- suggestions or bug reports to me, Roy Bixler. My postal address is:
-
- Roy Bixler
- 420 S. 13th
- San Jose, CA 95112
-
- On the Internet, try sending mail to:
-
- rcb@netcom.com -or- as327@cleveland.freenet.edu
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Roy Bixler
- April 11, 1992
-
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-
- I've just had a brush with a rather nasty 'bug'. The program would
- crash when writing files to a floppy. Now, this has worked fine
- before, but sometimes would fail when the serial number of the floppy
- doesn't change relative to the previous floppy in the drive (i.e. when
- using floppies formatted with DOS). To fix this, no change to the
- program is necessary - just install this 'fmc' (force media change)
- program in your AUTO folder and re-boot. Otherwise, I simply
- re-compiled the binary using GCC 2.1 and the newest Mint libraries
- (ver. 20 - ver. 19 supposedly had its own 'nasty bugs'.).
-
- Of course, it would be nice if I could get some force-media-change
- code to incorporate into the program. I haven't come across any yet
- and the only way I know of to get this code is to register as an
- official Atari developer, which I'm not ready for yet. Maybe I will
- be someday, especially if I ever get around to writing a GEM interface
- to 'docp'.
-
- Roy Bixler
- June 7, 1992
- e-mail: as327@cleveland.freenet.edu (rcb@netcom.com to go away soon!)
-