General Guidelines

An FCOPY command must follow these general guidelines:

Semicolons always separate the different components of a command. You can leave spaces between components. However, there can be no more than 70 characters between two semicolons. The three examples of an FCOPY command shown below are all valid.

   >FROM=A;        TO=B; NEW

   >FROM=C;TO=D;NEW

   >FROM=E; TO=F; NEW

	NOTE: For the sake of clarity, the examples in this manual show user input without spaces between parameters, unless the spaces are required as part of the syntax.

To continue an FCOPY command onto more than one line, use an ampersand (&) at the end of each line except the last. For example,

   >FROM=A;&

   TO=B;&

   NEW

An FCOPY command has no maximum length; however, a single line in an FCOPY command cannot be more than 72 characters long.

To interrupt FCOPY while it is copying a file, press CTRL Y. If you use this procedure to cancel a command, you cannot use an asterisk (*) to specify reuse of a previous file in the next command.

Numeric parameters in FCOPY functions can be in either octal or decimal form. Precede octal numbers with a percent sign (%).

The numbering of files and columns of data begins with 1; numbering of records within a file begins with 0.