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March 4, 1986
Instructions for COPY2.PRG
Program and documentation by David Duberman
This program was inspired by a public domain program
called COPY.PRG, written in assembler and distributed with two
excellent RAMdisk programs by the same author. Unfortunately,
the original COPY.PRG copies a byte at a time, so even in
assembler works rather slowly. COPY2.PRG was written in OSS
Personal Pascal, and uses a GEMDOS call to copy up to 32,000
bytes in one fell swoop. The result is an increase in copying
speed of at least 300%! Since most people will be using this to
copy files to drive C: (RAMdisk), this program avoids making you
specify this in the list of files to be copied. Changing the
destination drive spec is as simple as changing a character in
the source file (COPY2.PAS) and recompiling.
This program is intended to be placed in an AUTO folder
after placing a RAMdisk program in the folder. When run, it
reads an ASCII list of files to be copied to drive C:. The name
of the list should be FILE.LST and it should appear in the root
directory of the boot disk.
If you use ST Writer to create the list, print it to disk
with top, left, and bottom margins of 0, a right margin of 80,
and page length (^Y) of 2. If you use First Word, turn off WP
mode before saving the file. You can include path information,
e.g. A:\UTILS\JUNK.PRG is permissible.
After creating the FILE.LST list, create an AUTO folder
on the disk and copy a RAMdisk program into it. Michtron M-Disk
works fine, but you may want to use one of the public domain
RAMdisks that do not require you to specify a size for the disk
when run. Then copy COPY2.PRG into the folder. Of course, the
files to be copied should also be on the boot disk, or else on a
disk in drive B: upon booting. You may then copy any files you
want run automatically after the copy program into the AUTO
folder.
Then boot this disk, and all your files will be copied to
the RAMdisk automatically, and FAST.
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