TKermitFTP - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Jan 2005

On Jan 4 2005, 13:27, Joe R. wrote:
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  >>
 >> >From: "Pete Turnbull" &lt;pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com&gt;
 >> >
 >> >
 >> >You can't, in MS-DOS.  COPY uses ASCII transfers for COM ports and
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  >> >complains if you try to force binary,
because it needs to see a ctrl-Z
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  > >to
know where the end-of-file is. 
   Use COPY /B to force it to do a Binary copy. (FWIW  /A forces it to do an
...
  Ascii copy). 
The point is that you CAN'T use the /B switch when one of the files is
actually a device (like COM:).  DOS will not allow that.
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Pete                                            Peter Turnbull
                                                Network Manager
                                                University of York