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Copying Files
LIF Examples
DOS Examples
Copying an Entire
Volume
CAUTION
Examples
(LIF and DOS)
The COPY command allows you to copy an individual file or an entire volume.
Any type of file can be copied. You can copy a file to the same volume or to a
different volume. When you copy a file to the same volume, the new file name
must be different from the existing file name (if it is in the same directory). You
can copy DOS files to LIF volumes and vice versa. Refer to "Copy to/from DOS
and LIF" later in this chapter for more information.
MSI ":,700,0,0"
Sets default drive/volume to hard disk, volume 0
COPY "TEST" to "TEST:,700,1"
COPYs file from the default drive/volume to flexible disk using
the same file name
COPY "TEST:,700,1" to "PROG_1:,700,0,0"
COPYs file from flexible disk to hard disk volume 0 using a
different file name
MSI ":,700,0,0"
Sets default drive/volume to hard disk, volume 0
COPY "TEST:MEMORY,0,0" to "PROG_1"
COPYs file from RAM Volume 0 to default mass storage volume
using different file name
COPY "\PROGRAMS\VOLTMET\TEST:,700,0,1" to "TEST:,700,1"
COPYs TEST file from PROGRAMS\VOLTMET directories on
volume 1 of hard disk to flexible disk (if the flexible disk is
formatted in DOS, "TEST" goes to the current directory since no
path was specified)
MSI "\PROGRAMS\VOLTMET:,700,1"
Sets current directory path to PROGRAMS\VOLTMET. Sets
default drive/volume to flexible disk
COPY "TEST" to "\PROGRAMS\VOLTMET:,700,0,1"
COPYs file from current directory path on the default drive and
volume to \PROGRAMS\VOLTMET directories on hard disk
volume 1
COPY "\PROGRAMS\VOLTMET\TEST:MEMORY,0,1" to
"\DCVOLT\PROG1:,700,1"
COPYs TEST file from PROGRAMS\VOLTMET directories on
RAM Volume 1 to file PROG1 on DCVOLT directory of flexible
disk
The COPY command also allows you to copy the entire contents of a mass storage
volume to another volume. You cannot copy a larger volume to a smaller volume.
You can copy a smaller volume to a larger volume, however the size of the larger
volume will be reduced to the size of the smaller volume. When you copy a LIF
volume to a DOS volume, the DOS volume will be converted to LIF and vice versa.
Copying a volume destroys all previous data on the destination volume.
COPY ":,700,1" to ":,700,0,2"
COPYs volume from flexible disk to hard disk volume 2
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