singer@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Matthew R. Singer) (07/28/87)
Does anyone have or know of a source for a BULK COPIER for double sided disks? I have RDC which does single sided... M. Singer
fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (07/30/87)
> Does anyone have or know of a source for a BULK COPIER for double > sided disks? Just a simple program that allows one-floppy systems to copy all the files on an SS disk into a DS disk without 87 disk changes or copy to and from hard disk or ram disk would be nice. Do I need to write one? -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, +----------------+ Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX | NO CONTRA AID! | ...!uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl +----------------+
braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) (07/31/87)
[] A long time ago I wrote and posted the program 'FLEXCOPY' that copies disks as a whole between different physical formats as long as the logical formats are the same, the destination disk is large enough to hold the block of sectors from logical sector 0 to the last one IN USE on the source disk, and as long as both devices are accessible via Rwabs() calls. In practice this allows copying, as one big block, SS disks to DS and vice-versa, floppy to RAMdisk and vice-versa, and also copying to/from FAST or Twisted disks. I use it all the time. If you need it email me. If enough requests arrive I'll repost it. (It's a .TOS program, about 5K in size.) - Moshe Braner