Rana Systems Elite Series User Manual
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL
ENHANCED CP/M UTIL.
drive letter in which you plan on placing the
already formatted diskette which is to receive
the information from the original diskette.
<source> and <target> can he the same drive.
If you specify the “/S” option at the end of the
command, the you will he telling COPY to only
copy the CP/M operating system from the source
diskette to the target diskette without altering
any other information on the target diskette.
If you do not specify the “/S” option, then the
entire source diskette will be copied to the
target diskette.
The full diskette copy will completely replace
any previous information you had on the target
diskette. Just like with FORMAT, this previous
information will never he seen again.
Once again, the possibility of having various
different drive models intermixed on the same
system leads to certain restrictions as to their
use. COPY is very reliant upon how you have the
source and target drives defined under the CP/M
system. COPY asks CP/M for this information so
that it knows the type of drives with which it
will he dealing.
When performing a full diskette copy, three
variables influence the type of diskettes which
can he copied, what type of drives can he used
for the copy, and what type of target diskette
will result. These various combinations are
given in the following four tables:
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