Better DOS programs, anyone? (so I can scrap doscp)

[Dave L. Smith]

In article <278 at bria.UUCP> uunet!bria!mike writes:
>Part of the problem may be that you are using /dev/install to read the
>floppy (which is slower because it goes about figuring the density of
>the diskette it is reading); using the explicit device name can speed things
>up a bit (but not much, mind you! :-)
>
>For example ...
>
>	doscp /dev/fd096ds15:/dos/is/evil /tmp

Well, thanks, but the REAL deficiency is when I copy to/from a DOS hard
disk partition.  I would assume that doscp would not use /dev/install
to get c:/dos/is/evil :-)  Anyhow, it's just another one of those things
that I guess I'll have to live with.

Dave Smith


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