Hello Matthew!

Answering a msg of <Monday April 12 1993>, from Matthew Staikos to All:

The Norton-like bar along with the copying won't compile,
but you get the idea, no?

  {$I-}
  function __copyfil(
    show: boolean; x1,x2,y,f,b: byte; fs: longint; src, targ: string
  ): byte;
  {
   return codes:
     0 successful
     1 source and target the same
     2 cannot open source
     3 unable to create target
     4 error during copy
     5 cannot allocate buffer
  }
  const
    bufsize = 16384;

  type
    fbuf = array[1..bufsize] of char;
    fbf  = ^fbuf;

  var
    source,
    target   :    file;
    bread,
    bwrite   :    word;
    filebuf  :    ^fbf;
    tr       : longint;
    nr       :    real;

  begin
    if memavail > bufsize then new(filebuf) else begin
      __copyfil := 5; exit
    end;
    if src = targ then begin __copyfil := 1; exit end;
    assign(source, src); reset(source,1);
    if ioresult <> 0 then begin __copyfil := 2; exit end;
    assign(target, targ); rewrite(target,1);
    if ioresult <> 0 then begin __copyfil := 3; exit end;
    if show then __write(x1+2,y,f,b,__rep(x2-x1-3,'°')); tr := 0;
    repeat
      blockread(source,filebuf^,bufsize,bread);
      tr := tr + bread; nr := tr/fs;
      nr := nr * (x2-x1-3);
      if show then __write(x1+2,y,f,b,__rep(trunc(nr), 'Û'));
      blockwrite(target,filebuf^,bread,bwrite);
    until (bread = 0) or (bread <> bwrite);
    if show then __write(x1+2,y,f,b,__rep((x2-x1-3),'Û'));
    close(source); close(target);
    if bread <> bwrite then __copyfil := 4 else __copyfil := 0;
  end;
  {$I-}




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