DOS command - how to copy a dir to floppies
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Name: Shawn
Date: April 13, 2000 at 06:45:13 Pacific
Subject: DOS command - how to copy a dir to floppies |
Comment: I'd greatly appreciate help with a DOS command that would enable me to copy an entire directory to floppy disks. Each of the commands I have tried thus far results in a "destination drive full" error. Is there a command that will simply prompt me to insert next disk, etc.? Thanks.
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Response Number 1
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Name: davy
Date: April 13, 2000 at 07:18:21 Pacific
Subject: DOS command - how to copy a dir to floppies
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Reply: (edit)Hi, You aren't going to be able to do this without some sort of DOS compression agent, maybe PKZIP ? If you have Windows on this computer then you can do this with Winzip by setting the "Multiple Disk Spanning" to Yes when creating th archive Sorry
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Name: pierre
Date: April 13, 2000 at 10:04:06 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)There is a program called "Backit" that does this in DOS without using a compression agent. Search the internet, it's got to be out there somewhere. This prompts for sequential disks.
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Name: dosrules
Date: April 13, 2000 at 18:17:42 Pacific
Subject: DOS command - how to copy a dir to floppies
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Reply: (edit)i have tried XCOPY to copy dir form a floppy to the HDD you may want to try the same if you the
XCOPY source destination switches
first off to get more of an idea type
XCOPY /? XCOPY /E or XCOPY /S those should both work i would try XCOPY /S first
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Name: grayfox
Date: January 16, 2001 at 07:24:09 Pacific
Subject: DOS command - how to copy a dir to floppies |
Reply: (edit)Remember a floppy disk only hold max. 1.44 mb and some of the space has to be held by the mbr, root directory and the file allocation tables this leave you approximately 1.38 mb. Try checking the directory size first using the prompt c:\>dir /p, if the needed directory is less than 1.38 approx., try the promp c:\> copy (name of the directory with extension) a: usually the directory is much to large to fit. Then you can either use a compression program like winZip or use a zip disk for the copy.
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