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From: mintz@hpindda.HP.COM (Ken Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to write 360K disks in a 1.2MB drive
Message-ID: <4330096@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 88 03:57:07 GMT
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Organization: HP Technical Networks, Cupertino, Calif.
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# SUMMARY OF RESPONSES TO MY QUERY:
> BTW, since you mentioned COPYiiPC:  can it "copy" a 1.2M disk if all you 
> have is one floppy drive and a hard drive -- that is, without asking you
> to constantly switch floppies?  The ideal implementation would build a disk
> image in memory (if there's enough) or on the hard disk, then ask you to
> switch floppies.  Does it work that way?

  Several people sent email confirming that COPYiiPC will work adequately in
  a single-floppy environment.  Apparently, DISKCOPY has also been improved
  to make full use of available memory.  Thus, both try to minimze to disk
  switching.  However, it also appears that neither will buffer to the hard
  disk, if available, to avoid switching disks more than once.

  One person indicated that COPYiiPC does  n o t  work on 1.2M floppies.
  However, one other person specifically indicated it would.  It doesn't really
  matter to me:  I misspoke (miswrote?).  Since no software is distributed on
  HDDS disks, I was interested only in copying 360K disks on a 1.2M drive.

  Thanks for all the responses.

Ken Mintz