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- BCOPY.EXE - Copies files with critical errors by automatic [R]etry
- (c) Copyright 1992, Paul D. Nettle, All rights reserved
-
- BCopy aids in copying files that have critical errors in them. Most of these
- errors are easily overcome by reading the file and hitting [R]etry many times.
- BCopy will copy those files with ease by automatically retrying. It shows you
- it's progress as it trudges through those files, allowing you to press [I] to
- ignore for a single read failure, so you know exactly where the error is, and
- how many of the errors are completely unrecoverable.
-
- BCOPY will attempt to read errors as long as you don't try to stop it. To see
- this in action, remove the floppy from drive A: and try to copy a file from out
- there.
-
- If BCOPY cannot read a sector in 15 minutes, you should probably give it up.
- The file is BAD (but some of you may want to let it run overnight on those
- un-replaceable files since there is still that chance, however small, that it
- may actually work).
-
- Since BCOPY shows you it's progress, you can monitor it to find out exactly
- where the errors are and limit them to as few as possible by only ignoring the
- errors that YOU KNOW are never going to read properly. Only 512 bytes are read
- in at a time (the normal number of bytes that a floppy drive sector contains).
- This means that BCOPY slower that DOS's COPY, but when an error occurs you only
- lose the 512 bytes that were bad, as opposed to a possibility losing up to 64K
- that was unreadable (as in DOS's copy).
-
- BCOPY will also work on files that reside on hard drives, too.
-
- Keys available during copy are:
- [ESC] to stop copying.
- [I]gnore - only available when errors are encountered.
- [A]bort - only available when errors are encountered.
-
- I hope BCOPY will save your files as it has mine.
-
- If you find this program of use often enough to make your concience tell you
- "SEND HIM MONEY.....", I'll even accept $5.00 donations. This will not, how-
- ever register you for any new versions or any 'product information' as this is
- NOT a product. Please don't send more that $5.00. I didn't spend THAT much
- time programming it. And yes, the source is available (for $15.00) -- send me
- a check and I'll send you a disk!
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- SUGGESTIONS/BUGS/MONEY?
-
- Send to:
- Paul Nettle
- 9668 Washington St.
- Romulus, MI 48174
-