FCOPY

FCOPY

FCOPY is a utility within the system similar to the COPY command, which enables you to copy data from one ￿le to another ￿le. The FCOPY command utility provides more ￿exibilit y and capabilities than the COPY command, however.

Syntax

From MPE:

FCOPY 8 FROM=source￿le;TO= 92 target￿le 32 ;NEW 3

From the FCOPY subsystem:

FCOPY

Parameters

 

FROM

Speci￿es the name of the ￿le ( source￿le ) to be copied.

TO

Speci￿es the name of the ￿le ( target￿le ) to which source￿le is

 

to be copied. If you omit target￿le , source￿le is copied to the

 

$STDLIST device.

NEW

Creates a new permanen t disk ￿le. The default is that

 

target￿le must already exist.

Operation Notes

Usage

You can enter this command from a session, a job, or a program. Pressing 4Break5 suspends the execution of this command. En tering the RESUME command continues execution of the command.

If you enter this command from a program, either y ou or the program m ust have process handling (PH) capability .

Utility capabilities

The FCOPY command enables y ou to do the following tasks:

MPE/iX Commands 2-73