Zenith Z-150 User Manual page 118

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Operations
• Enter an appropriate title (limited to 11 characters with no spaces
or punctuation), and press the RETURN key. The computer will
display:
362496 bytes total disk space
362496 bytes available on disk
Do you wish to format another disk (YIN)?
• Press the N key for "no." The display will show the MS-DOS prompt.
The disk has been successfully formatted, but the operating system
has not been placed on it.
COPY
• Place the disk you want to copy in drive A Leave the disk in drive
Balone.
• Type the following:
COPY A:*.*=B:
• Press the RETURN key. The disk access indicators will alternately
glow as each disk drive is accessed
by
the operating system. The
name of each file will be displayed as it is copied from drive A
to drive B. When all the files have been copied, a message is dis ­
played that tells you how many files were transferred (copied) to
the destination disk (in this case, all of them). Such a message might
read:
26 File (s) copied
The COPY command is used to copy one or more files from one disk
to another. It is a widely used command and, as you can see, can be
used to make backups or system disks from software that is distributed
on nonsystem disks. The message displayed at the end of the operation
tells ou how man files were involved in an articular COpy ooeration.