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- Subject: Re: Copying DOS files.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.075612.16637@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il>
- From: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il (Dov Grobgeld)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:56:12 GMT
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- tye@spillman.uucp (E. Tye McQueen) writes:
- : [stuff deleted]
- :
- : And SCO's and System V R4's doscp is far superior to IBM's dosread/
- : doswrite. You can do:
- :
- : doscp a:file1.dat b:file1.bak
- :
- There is the mtools public domain package which provides mcopy, mdir, mdel,
- mformat, etc. I don't remember where I originally got it from but it is
- available by anonymous ftp from my machine somewhere (menora.weizmann.ac.il:
- /pub/??)
-
- It works beatifully and is much, much faster than the IBM provided tools.
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