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Section C:
Utility Programs
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$COPYDSK
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C.S. $COPYDSK - Copying Entire Diskettes
This utility provides a means
disks
are copied physically,
driven, you simply type
$COPYDSK
for fast duplicating entire diskettes. The
track by track.
As this program is
menu
to start it. The screen mask is divided into three columns, the leftmost
of
them showing a list of available drives.
From this list you
select
the drive where the source disk is in.
The middle column shows the same
list,
and you select the drive for the (empty) destination disk. Final-
ly, the rightmost column contains the commands available with $COPYDSK.
Principally,
it
is only possible to copy to a disk of exactly the same
format
as the source disk.
From the first,
copying a mini disk
to
a
standard disk and vice versa,
is precluded.
When the program, after it
has started,
detects that the destination disk format is not in accord
with the source disk, copying is aborted, too.
After the program has started, some kind of scale appears on the screen.
The
scale is composed of dots,
where each dot represents a track to be
copied. Two such scales are proQuced, one for the source disk, the other
for one the destination. According to the progress of transfer, the dots
are replaced by letters:
s - System track. These tracks might contain parts of the operation
system and are not copied.
R -
Read.
After each track has been read from the source,
an
"R"
appears in the upper scale.
W-
Write. In the lower scale, a
"W
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appears after a track has been
written to the destination disk.
It is possible to do a single drive copy; just specify the same drive as
source
and destination.
You will then be asked to change the diskettes
before the programm proceeds.
Note,
however,
that the format of
both
disks are not checked. The destination disk MUST have the same format as
the
source
disk.
If
you
do not take extremely care
of
this
fact,
unpredictable results will occur!
EOS User's manual
Daeumling & Zimmermann
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