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Topic       : User Manual for TeraDesk
Author      : Wout Klaren, Henk Robbers, Djordje Vukovic
Version     : February 2017
Subject     : Documentation/Utilities
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      Menus and Dialogs

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         Menu title: File

4.2.9 Copy disk...                                            TeraDesk

When this menu item is selected while a floppy drive icon is selected,
a physical copy, sector by sector, of the floppy will be made.  Before
attempting  actual  copying, a check will be made to see if the target
and  the  source disk have the same format. Therefore, both disks must
have  valid  boot sectors  containing the information on the number of
sides, tracks  and sectors.  Beware that this  check may  prevent copy
of some specially formatted floppy disks without proper boot sectors.

If a sector-copy  operation fails,  it is retried  before  an error is
reported. Number of retries can be specified in the dialog.

A buffer of the size specified in the Copy and print... dialog will be
used for copying.

If  this  operation  is  used  in a multi-tasking environment (MiNT or
MagiC),  an attempt  is made  to lock the  floppy drive device  before
commencing copying.

If you are running Tera Desktop in low or medium screen resolution and
TOS 1.0, this menu item may not be visible  because of the limitations
of the menu size in this TOS version.  However,  in such cases  it can
still be accessed through Keyboard shortcuts.

See also:  Supported screen resolutions