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For convenience, PIP allows abbreviated commands for transferring files between disk drives.
The abbreviated PIP forms are
PIP d:=afn
PIP d1:=d2:afn
PIP ufn=d2:
PlP d1:ufn=d2:
The first form copies all files from the currently logged disk that satisfy the afn to the same files
on drive d, where d = A...P. The second form is equivalent to the first, where the source for the
copy is drive d2 where d2 = A ... P. The third form is equivalent to the command PIP
d1:ufn=d2:ufn which copies the file given by ufn from drive d2 to the file ufn on drive d1. The
fourth form is equivalent to the third, where the source disk is explicitly given by d2.
The source and destination disks must be different in all of these cases. If an afn is specfied, PIP
lists each ufn that satisfies the afn as it is being copied. If a file exists by the same name as the
destination file, it is removed after successful completion of the copy and replaced by the copied
file.
The following PIP commands give examples of valid disk-to-disk copy operations:
B=*.COM Copies all files that have the secondary name COM to drive B from
the current drive.
A:=B:ZAP.* Copies all files that have the primary name ZAP to drive A from
drive B.
ZAP.ASM=B: Same as ZAP.ASM=B:ZAP.ASM
B:ZOT.COM=A: Same as B:ZOT.COM=A:ZOT.COM
B:=GAMMA.BAS Same as B:GAMMA.BAS=GAMMA.BAS
B:=A:GAMMA.BAS Same as B:GAMMA.BAS=A:GAMMA.BAS
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