QUIKCOPY.EXE (VERSION 1.0)
Copyright (c) 1994, Bob Flanders and Michael Holmes
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                  First Published in PC Magazine August, 1994 (Utilities)
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QUIKCOPY by Bob Flanders and Michael Holmes

PURPOSE:

         QUIKCOPY is a replacement for DOS's DISKCOPY command. Like DISKCOPY,
which is found in DOS 6.2, QUIKCOPY can copy an entire disk in one pass, but
it uses extended or expanded memory rather than a RAM disk. It can also speed
the process by copying only used clusters.

SYNTAX:

The syntax for QUIKCOPY is

                           QUIKCOPY source-drive [target-drive] [/1] [/A]

If the target-drive parameter is omitted, QUIKCOPY will assume that the
source drive and the target drive are the same. The /1 parameter tells
QUIKCOPY that you want to make only one copy of the source disk; you will
not be prompted to change target disks after the first copy is completed.
The /A parameter can be used to copy all of a disk regardless of whether
a cluster is in use. This is the technique used by DOS's DISKCOPY command.

REMARKS:

         When QUIKCOPY reads the source disk, it examines the disk structure
to determine if the disk is DOS or non-DOS. Then, based on its findings,
QUIKCOPY uses one of two copy algorithms: a used-cluster algorithm, where
only the portions of the disk marked by DOS as used are copied, or a sector
algorithm, which copies all sectors regardless of what is stored there.
If you choose, you can use the /A switch to force QUIKCOPY to use the
sector algorithm.

         As with the DOS DISKCOPY command, you are restricted to copying
data between disks of like format--1.2MB to 1.2MB, 1.44MB to 1.44MB, and
so on.

         QUIKCOPY goes beyond DISKCOPY in its reporting. It shows a bar
graph of progress as it copies the disk and also displays the source
disk label and capacity, the amount of memory needed, the type of copy
algorithm employed, and other related information. Upon completion,
QUIKCOPY issues a final report showing number of disks written and
data-transfer rates in bytes per second.
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Bob Flanders and Michael Holmes are president and vice president of NCI
systems and coauthors of the books PC Magazine C LAB NOTES and C++
COMMUNICATIONS UTILITIES.
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