Backing Up My Xenix Distribution Disks

Jeffrey Klein jklein at dev.dtic.dla.mil
Fri May 4 00:16:37 AEST 1990


chip at chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:

>In article <511648 at nstar.UUCP> larry at nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>In article <2479 at crash.cts.com>, jburnes at crash.cts.com (Jim Burnes) writes:
>>> [What is] the easiest way to backup my distribution diskettes[?]
>>Use diskcopy supplied with your copy of DOS

>Be careful.  Newer versions of DISKCOPY insist that the disk look like a
>DOS disk.  I suggested diskcp(C) to Jim in email.

>BTW...I know this because this question came up about a year back, and I
>was the guy who said "use DISKCOPY" then.

It's been a while sisnce I've used Xenix, but I recall seeing (and using)
SCO Xenix's doscp command for making distribution disk backups.  This
was documented in the manuals (can't remember where.  If you need the
location e-mail me and I'll look it up).


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