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From:	"Alain" <alainm AT pobox DOT com>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Beware of PTS-DOS
Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:11:14 -0200
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>>> After that I discovered that if I copy a big file 1,2Mb from a
diskette it
>>> gets corrupted :( after a long time I discovered that this could be
fixed
>>> with the /V option :(((
>DJ> Thanks for the warning ...
>DJ> However, two things to clarify :
>DJ> 1. Did the 1.2M file have a Control-Z character in it, such that
>DJ>     "copy" didn't copy the whole file (this behaviour depends
>DJ>     also on the filename extension, of course).
AB>     1. When copying files one-to-one (unlike addition mode or
explicitly
AB>pointed by /a ASCII mode) COPY (must) work in binary mode when ^Z
presence
AB>or missing is ignored.

See my previous message

>     2. /V only turns on VERIFY mode (when DOS checks result of writing
on
>disk by hardware) at the time of copying and have absolutely no
relation
>with possible FAT file system (logical) destruction.

two coments: (1) it showed a message saying that the copy was being
made in binary, (2) this time it was not the FAT that was corrupted, but
the file contents. I checked with FreeDos's COMP and there were a few
bytes (first time it was 4 and second time it was 5) that were changed.
I didn't check the FAT after this operation, only after a few more

>     3. /V practially gives nothing, because hardly brakes hard disk
speed
>and not gives floppy disk writing quality assurance.

I agree with that, but it worked many times...

Alain

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