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Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms
copy

  1. to duplicate information in another place, leaving the original unchanged. In many spreadsheets, editors, and drawing programs, copy means either of two things:
    1. to copy material from one place to another;
    2. to copy material from the document being edited into a holding area, from which you can then "paste" it elsewhere. See cut ; paste ; Clipboard .
  2. a command, under DOS, OS/2, andWindows, that makes a copy of a disk file. For example, the command
    COPY PGM.SRC PGMC2.SRC
    takes the old file (PGM.SRC) and makes a copy of it under the name PGMC2.SRC. Two other examples are as follows:
    COPY A:*.BAS C:
    copies all files on drive A whose names end in .BAS onto drive C;
    COPY A:*.* C:
    copies all files from drive A onto drive C. The asterisk acts as a wild card, matching any filename (see wild card ).

See also xcopy
Dictionary of Marketing Terms
copy

  1. all written or textual material in an advertisement or direct-mail piece, including headlines, subheadings, and body copy . The term is used in this context to refer to all such material before it is set in type, as well as after it appears in print. The term originates from the days when this material was received by the printer in handwritten form and would have to be copied into type for printing.
  2. all material to be made into a printing plate for duplicating. This includes artwork, photographs, illustrations, decorations, and typography. In this context, the term refers to the fact that all materials to be reproduced must be in layout form and copied by the photoengraver's camera before the printing plate can be made.

Related Terms:
xcopy

a command in Windows and other operating systems for copying groups of files. It works just like copy except that as many files as possible are read into memory before any are written to disk. This is usually faster than using copy. Also, with the /s option, xcopy will copy a directory with all its subdirectories.

Referring Terms:
cut
paste
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