Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!ucbvax!NGP.UTEXAS.EDU!mknox From: mknox@NGP.UTEXAS.EDU (Margaret H. Knox) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: PIPing random files Message-ID: <8711261736.AA12340@ngp.utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 12:36:55 EST Article-I.D.: ngp.8711261736.AA12340 Posted: Thu Nov 26 12:36:55 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 16:41:48 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 Does this sound familiar? An application program has a large random file it creates at the beginning. Various entries are filled, but by no means all. The person in question says he used to be able to copy the files from one floppy to another using PIP with no problem. Now he has a hard disk and when he copies the random file from floppy to the hard disk (important note: NOT the same random file as he used to copy between floppies), PIP "shrinks" the file, and the application program throws up all over it. I remember some years ago a problem with using PIP to copy random files, but just added a "random copy" into my application program and forgot about it. Any solutions based on the limited info available? Any PD copy program that would NOT have this problem? tnx