Since the 'NEW' parameter is specified in the 'fcopy' command, the 'fcopy' will
take longer since it needs to 'extract' the attributes of the old file and use
them in creating the new one.

As a test I created a couple of command files and used them against the same
file.  The elapsed times are in milliseconds.

Regards
Paul Christidis

:fprint
EOF of Input file: 207543
(print) Elapsed time: 15


:ffcopy
EOF of Input file: 207543
HP31900A.05.02 FILE COPIER (C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1990

1 RECORD PROCESSED *** 0 ERRORS

END OF SUBSYSTEM
(fcopy) Elapsed time: 58


REPEAT TEST USING A LARGER FILE

:file file1=ac641SBT.db.vxl;acc=in;shr

:fprint
EOF of Input file: 4463766
(print) Elapsed time: 16
:
:ffcopy
EOF of Input file: 4463766
HP31900A.05.02 FILE COPIER (C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1990

1 RECORD PROCESSED *** 0 ERRORS

END OF SUBSYSTEM
(fcopy) Elapsed time: 61