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From: "Mike Vince" <mike DOT vince AT monode DOT force9 DOT co DOT uk>
To: caldera-opendos AT rim DOT caldera DOT com
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 11:46:36 +0000
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Subject: xcopy alternatives? and email
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I was copying 300MB+ between hard drives and noticed that xcopy is 
very slow compared to a similar operation in W95.  This was on a PC 
with 32MB ram and ultra DMA IDE.  I am using the March version of 
DR7.02.

I assume that W95 makes use of the ultra DMA while xcopy moves 
everythig into free memory below 640k and back out to the 2nd drive.  
Is this correct?  Is there an up to date equivelent to xcopy that 
makes use of ultra dma and extended memory to operate at a reasonable 
speed?

I receive many email with file attachments.  These are often M$ 
Office 97 files (Excel and Word).  As these are from customers I 
can't ignore them, so is there an alternative to using W95 and Office 
97 to process these?  Once I can solve this I don't need Windoze.

Mike Vince