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pmove
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tHE pmove uTILITY IS A COMPREHENSIVE FILE COPY UTILITY.  iT ALLOWS THE USER TO EASILY TRANSFER MULTIPLE FILES FROM ONE DISK TO ANOTHER WITH A MINIMUM AMOUNT OF KEYSTROKES.  aLL ldos SUPPORTED DISK DEVICES MAY BE OPERATED ON, INCLUDING sINGLE/dOUBLE dENSITY, sINGLE/dOUBLE sIDED, 5" AND 8" FLOPPIES AND FIXED/REMOVABLE DISK SYSTEMS.  tHE SYNTAX OF THE pmove COMMAND IS:
 
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          !  pmove,:A,:B,/CDE,FILE1,FILE1>FILE2               !
          !                                                   !
          !          :A  = SOURCE DRIVE NUMBER (0-7)          !
          !          :B  = DESTINATION DRIVE (0-7)            !
          !          /CDE = DEFAULT EXTENSION FOR ALL FILES   !
          !          FILE1,2 = ANY VALID ldos FILESPEC        !
          !          >   = RENAME FILE TO FOLLOWING FILENAME  !
          !                FOLLOWED BY A LIST OF FILES        !
          !                                                   !
          !  ABBR: pmove,AB/CDEFILE1,FILE2                    !
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     oNCE THE DESIRED PARAMETERS HAVE BEEN ENTERED, THE SOURCE AND DESTINATION DIRECTORIES WILL BE READ TO ESTABLISH THE DISK TYPES.  tHE COMMAND LINE MAY BE SPECIFIED WITH THE PROGRAM NAME FROM THE dos COMMAND LEVEL, OR YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR IT.  iF ENTERED FROM dos, YOU WILL BE LIMITED TO THE 63 CHARACTER INPUT BUFFER.  iF PROMPTED FROM THE PROGRAM, YOU WILL HAVE A FULL 255 CHARACTER BUFFER TO SPECIFY THE FILES.  yOU MAY ALSO OPTIONALLY ENTER THE ASTERISK CHARACTER (*) AS THE FIRST COMMAND, AND THE SCREEN WILL NOT BE CLEARED WHEN THE PROGRAM INITIALIZES.  iF YOU HAVE A DIRECTORY ON THE SCREEN, TYPE pmove,* AND YOU WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE 255 CHARACTER INPUT, AND THE FILENAMES WILL STILL BE ON THE SCREEN.
 
     pmove MAY BE USED TO COPY A SINGLE FILE:
pmove,01PMOVE/CMD
     BUT THE TIME SAVING IS REALLY NOTICED WHEN SEVERAL FILES ARE TO BE COPIED:
pmove,01/CMDPMOVE,PMOD,PVU,PFILT/FLT,PASSNO,PMAP
     THE ABOVE COMMAND WILL COPY 6 FILES FROM DRIVE 0 TO 1, AND THE DEFAULT EXTENSION OF /cmd WILL BE ADDED TO ALL FILES EXCEPT pfilt/flt.
 
     pmove MAY ALSO BE USED TO DUPLICATE THE SAME SOURCE FILE TO SEVERAL DESTINATION FILES USING THE RENAME CAPABILITIES:
PMOVE,01/CMDPMOVE,PMOVE>PMOVE1,PMOVE>PMOVE2,PMOVE>PMOVE3
     THE ABOVE COMMAND WILL TAKE pmove/cmd FROM DRIVE 0, AND CREATE 4 IDENTICAL FILES ON DRIVE 1 NAMED pmove/cmd, pmove1/cmd, pmove2/cmd, AND pmove3/cmd.

