Copying to a NULL CD-ROM Volume Archive
- COPYWRITE provides a mechanism for copying files from a
source to a NULL destination.
- The feature is called COPY and DISCARD, because the
source data is discarded and no archive volume is
created.
- It is useful for verifying any source volume, including
CD-ROMs created from archive volumes created by
COPYWRITE.
- Example 60 shows a copy and
discard from a CD-ROM archive volume to NULL.
- Example 61 to 63 show a copy and discard from
a CD, TAPE and DISK to NULL.
- When files are copied to NULL, no data transformation
occurs, because after the LIBRARY/MAINTENANCE block has
been received, it is discarded.
- There is another form of COPY and DISCARD, in which
transform action does still occur, and it uses the DUMMYFILE attribute. It
is invoked by label equating a file with the same name as
the the destination volume name with the DUMMYFILE
attribute. When this is done, the source data is read and
presented to the TRANSFORM function, however no data is
written to the volume archive.For example, the SEARCH shortcut
sets this attribute internally.