Sorry, no idea on the cheese!

Yes I beleive those were done by our UK partner at the time, but I don't recall the name of the firm.

According to Wikipedia, the Kaypro 4 ran only CP/M, but the Kaypro 4+88 ran both CP/M and DOS.

3.5" disks were typically 1.44 MB. 5.25" were 360 KB but there was a high density kind that went up to 1.2 MB. (Even further in the past, at one point my dad had some 8" disks around also but those were well before PCs. What sticks in my memory (sorry) better are the old IBM 1130 1 MB disk...

@samintz yes, and notice that the brand card indicates the disk size. I was using those new-fangled 3.5" disks. @mikea yup it's me. I don't remember any irritating bug reports so you're good there :). Mine was also in the basement.

Not a support question but I thought some of you old-timers would appreciate this. Remember brand cards? Here's a really old one, from ~1991. Found it among old papers I was sorting. Tom

OK, I see that, the perils of overloading, but then there's not much room to maneuver in COPY. Sounds like /N? will ignore the second character if it is not one of the suboptions, rather than treating it as a new option. This also explains the behavior Frank reported. Now if I just had all the...

Hi Rex ... I ran into the following today -- it seems that copy /un tests the update process without copying anything, but copy /nu does the update and ignores the /n. I guess the /u must override it. I use this a lot and I always do /un, today I just happened to type it in the other order...

Thanks, that was it. So is duplication of bugs considered a feature? :-) I guess so if you have to make batch files run in both environments ... -- Tom

Hi Rex or whomever ... A minor annoyance here, I frequently use the following alias to update a flash drive:set drv=k %+ if "%1" != "" set drv=%1 %+ copy /su e:\dirname\* %drv:\dirname\ %+ unset drv In my old 4NT this works fine, it copies changed or new files to drive k: (or whatever drive I...