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dspilletttoday at 4:51 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, it did, or something did (maybe the individual commands rather than it being through the OS). I'd completely forgotten about that…


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jasomilltoday at 5:07 PM

Both of these things are true: commands like diskcopy have special handling to allow the same drive to be used as both source and destination, and the DOS I/O has special handling to request disk changes from A: to B: on single-drive systems for programs that lack specific support.