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Date   : Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:58:02 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Tube File Copying

>Message-ID: <C4hzKvGViv+EFwo4@...>
 
Mike Tomlinson <mike@...> wrote:
> >b) use all the available RAM in the Tube as a buffer.
> 
> Have you tried CopyFiles from the Master Welcome disc?  This is in BASIC
> so should be trivial to alter to make the most use of free memory.
 
So trivial, it should require no changing. Any file copying
program written in BASIC will use something like:
 
max%=HIMEM-LOMEM-overhead
DIM mem% max%
 
which will, of course, use as much memory as it can.
 
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