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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL ENHANCED CP/M UTIL.
1 0 . 5 . S G L D R I V E U t i l i t y
The SGLDRIVE utility is designed specifically
for CP/M users with only one drive. If you are
not such a user, the description of this utility
will not be of much use to you. If you are a
single drive user, this utility can prove to be
invaluable.
Single drive users (on an Apple or any other
CP/M system) quickly find that CP/M is not over-
ly friendly to them CP/M was not really de-
signed with only one drive in mind. The biggest
example of this is the PIP utility for which
SGLDRIVE was specifically designed (although it
can function in other applications as well).
PIP is a standard utility which is pare of the
CP/M system itself (from Digital Research), as
opposed to FORMAT and COPY which were added by
Microsoft and which strictly work under the
Apple II version of CP/M. PIP’s primary func-
tion (it has alot of functions, see your CP/M
manuals) is to copy individual files or groups
of files from one diskette onto another diskette
(or possibly the same diskette), without de-
stroying the other existing files on the target
diskette.
PIP’s problem is that if you specify the source
drive (on which PIP is to find the original
files) and the target drive (to which PIP is to
copy the files) as the same drive, PIP assumes
you want the copy of the file to go on the same
diskette as the source. This prevents single
drive users from copying individual files be-
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