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|    ATREYU to Alexander Grotewohl    |
|    Re: Copy File    |
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      MSGID: 1:229/426 18E721BC       REPLY: 1:120/616 b4f13a92       On 04 Sep 22 17:14:27, Alexander Grotewohl said the following to Nick Andre:              AG> NA> procedure SAFECOPY (fromFile, toFile : string);       AG>        AG> this only copies 64 bytes at a time (should be something closer to the       AG> filesystem block size, or if it's unknown the best guess is 4096). i.e: thi       AG> function likely reads the disk 64 times per 4096 bytes instead of 1x              I'm sure the whole thing can be improved, it was an example from a collection       of code dating back to... TP 5.5 I think.              Nick              --- Renegade vY2Ka2        * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)    |
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