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Xxcopy vs Robocopy

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:00:13 +0000

Part of being a system administrator is copying large quantities of files around, for any number of reasons. The traditional command line tools for this, Copy and Xcopy, have some limitations. For this reason, two companies extended Xcopy: Microsoft, with

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XCOPY vs ROBOCOPY

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:00:19 +0000

XCOPY vs ROBOCOPY: Which do you like? If you’re a command line jockey, both Windows tools have their place. Here’s how I decide when to use which one. Note: If you’re looking for a comparison of Robocopy and the third-party

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Origin of CP/M’s PIP command

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:00:58 +0000

CP/M was, as you probably know, the first popular microcomputer operating system. It was good but imperfect, and its cryptic command for copying files, PIP, is often cited as an example. Copy makes sense. Even the Unix equivalent, cp, makes sense–it’s

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Albert Pujols, mercenary

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 03:09:04 +0000

I’m a Royals fan living in St. Louis, so my perspective on Albert Pujols has always been that he’s the one who got away. He went to high school and college in Kansas City, but somehow Royals scouts overlooked him.

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Was CP/M overrated?

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:17:09 +0000

Veteran tech journalist Dan Tynan recently published a list of 10 overrated technology products, and CP/M was on his list. But was CP/M overrated? I want to dig into that question a bit. I think everyone knows the story of

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