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   Anssi Saari to Pekka Takala   
   Re: C64/1541 copy: have disk, need file!   
   06 Mar 17 14:16:29   
   
   From: as@sci.fi   
      
   Pekka Takala  writes:   
      
   > If your file size is over 201 blocks, you need to use special program   
   > for it.   
      
   How do those special programs work, other than flipping disks multiple   
   times? I remember early on in the 80s there was this file copy program   
   called copy57.5K or something like that. Presumably it was able to do   
   57.5 kB at a time but how?   
      
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