In article <f222a765-dc23-4f84-9b26-0726dc5e8b41 at googlegroups.com>, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> writes: > Could be construed as being very smart or in your case, a bit too smart and > not ideally what you wanted :-) It did do what I wanted. But I did want to test the disk before initiating the copy.