User`s guide

COPY
If you use the /WAIT option with /TOPS, you must use two device drives for the
operation.
The following command copies in ASCII format all the files named MODULE
from the DECsystem–10 DECtape DT0 to the RT–11 device RK0:
.COPY/ASCII DT0:MODULE.*/TOPS RK0:*.*
/VERIFY
Verifies that the output matches the input after a copy operation between RT–11
directory-structured devices. If the two files or devices are different, a message is
displayed on the terminal. This option cannot be used with /ASCII or /BINARY.
/WAIT
Copies from one disk to another if your system has only a single-disk drive, if
you want to use only one drive unit of a dual-drive system for a copy operation,
or if you wish to remove the system volume in order to use the system drive to
hold the input or output volume.
To use this option, enter a command string according to the following general
format:
.COPY/WAIT input-filespec output-filespec
where output-filespec specifies the destination device and file, and input-filespec
specifies the source device and file.
After you enter this command, RT–11 responds by displaying the following
prompt:
Mount input volume in <device>; Continue?
When the input volume is mounted and you are ready to proceed, type Y
RETURN
in response to the prompt to continue the COPY operatation.
Type N
RETURN
or press
CTRL/C
to abort the COPY operation at the Continue?
prompt. However, if the system volume is not in place and you try to abort the
operation, RT–11 prompts you to remount the system volume. In that case, RT–
11 does not abort the operation until you have responded with a Y
RETURN
to the
request for mounting the system volume.
The COPY/WAIT operation varies slightly depending on how many and what
drives you use. The following two-drive and one-drive COPY/WAIT steps
summarize the COPY/WAIT operations.
A Two-Drive COPY/WAIT Operation
If you are using two drives, the COPY/WAIT operation:
1. Prompts you to mount the input volume in one drive and the output volume
in the other drive.
2. Does the COPY operation.
56 RT–11 Command Descriptions