On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 02:34:15PM -0400, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> Or, look at the self-check mechanism of a copy process. It compares the
> copy to the original to see if the copy was completed successfully. The
> body that is considered to be definitively correct is the original. The
> body that is compared and corrected if it deviates is the copy.
As a quick pedanticism, this particular process is not dependent on the
direction in which it is performed. I have seen code written to verify
copied files that goes one way, or the other, or both (starting at
different parts of the storage, where data is spread over multiple
devices).
Martin
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