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The
PIP Command
Although
there
are
several
ways of copying files, the program you are most
likely
to
use is the transien t
command
PIP.
PIP
is
an
acronym
for
"Peripheral
Interchange Program". However, you can
think
of
it
as
"Put In Place", since that is what the PIP program does.
You
will
probably use PIP
to
put all the programs, and possibly backup copies
of information files
as
well, onto the diskettes you will work from. PIP
can
copy
between
disks or
diskettes,
b,etween user areas on the disks' surfaces,
and
with the option of using
the
same name for both the new and the
original
files, or using a different name for the
new
file.
In
addition,
you
can use PIP with ambiguous file names
to
copy
whole
ranges
< of
files,
at
once.
But
note
the
order in which filenames must be specified.
You
must give
it:
•
the
name (and disk location) of
the
copied
file
first.
•
the
name (and location) of the file
being
copied next
• any other options third
• the [RETURN1 command last
First
you
must
specify
name
and
location:
you
can't
move
information into a new
file name until the file name or location
has
been
specified.
But
once you do, the
new
file will have the same
capabilities
or
information
as
the original.
The following
table
lists
the
command line formats available with
the
PIP
program.
Make
a
copy
on
disk
B
of
the
file
FILE.EXT
from
disk A. PIP B:=A:FILE.EXT
Copy
all
files from disk A
to
disk
B.
PIP B:=A:*.*
PIPping Several FRes
At
Once
V-IS
There
are
several ways
that
you can use PIP
to
copy more than one file
at
a
time. The simplest is shown
in
the
table
above:
use
the
CP
1M
wild
card
functions
(* and 1)
to
match your entry against a number of different files on
the
drive. To copy all the
command
files from
the
A
drive
to
the
B
drive,
you would enter:
PIN
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