Paul Quinn wrote in a message to Ian Wilmore:

 IW> Allowing as I do my hard drive to fill up almost to the end, it would
 IW> be handy to insert into a number of my batch files a test to find out
 IW> whether theres enough room to copy a specified file to it. Something
 IW> that sets an errorlevel accordingly is required. Does anyone know of
 IW> such? Id rather not try the copy and see whether it fails as the test
 IW> as some of the files might to quite large and anyway if the copy
 IW> fails its messy.

 PQ> I've found an answer to a similar question posted here back in
 PQ> August '95.  It mentions using a util to do the checking.  I've
 PQ> just un-debugged the capture text and it created a Zip archive,
 PQ> like... I'm trying to say I haven't tried it myself.  :)   I'll
 PQ> send you the util's archive in an email (4.2k). 

Gotit and replied via e-mail but its not suitable. It only works
in units of 1megabyte. Thanks anyway.


Bye now,
           Ian. 
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