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COPY File/Dir(with wildcards) DestinationFile/Dir
This is a recursive command which will copy files or directories
to the destination.
ex: Copy dh0:myfile#? ram:
or: Copy dh0:myfile ram:MyNewFile
If a directory is given as destination then the file(s) will be
copied into that dir.
Copy (also LVACTION COPY and ACTION COPY ) will check if the
destination file exists and is more recent than the source.
If yes, it will warn you (as is done by Dir-Opus, Windows etc)
and ask you if it should proceed (with Yes/Yes to all/No etc..)
NOTE:
Since v3.8, after a HD crash I had which invalidated the damn
thing, I made the COPY command (and ACTION etc) safer. Copy
will now read from the source file, open the destination, seek
to the end, write the buffer (about 64K), and *close* the file
every time, so that the disk bitmap is written if the amiga
crashes by the time the buffer is ready for the next write.