On Jan 4 2005, 13:27, Joe R. wrote:
> >>
> >> >From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >You can't, in MS-DOS. COPY uses ASCII transfers for COM ports
and
> >> >complains if you try to force binary, because it needs to see a
ctrl-Z
> >> >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.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Tue Jan 04 2005 - 13:56:24 GMT