Date   : Thu, 26 Nov 1987 11:36:55 CST
From   : mknox@ngp.utexas.edu (Margaret H. Knox)
Subject: PIPing random files

Does this sound familiar?  An application program has a large random
file it creates at the beginning.  Various entries are filled, but by
no means all.  The person in question says he used to be able to
copy the files from one floppy to another using PIP with no problem.
Now he has a hard disk and when he copies the random file from floppy
to the hard disk (important note: NOT the same random file as he used
to copy between floppies), PIP "shrinks" the file, and the application
program throws up all over it.

I remember some years ago a problem with using PIP to copy random files,
but just added a "random copy" into my application program and forgot
about it.  Any solutions based on the limited info available?  Any
PD copy program that would NOT have this problem?

                                       tnx