As I wasn't able to find something like this on a quick research
I wrote my own tool...

This little helper will do a binary copy of the first n bytes
from a given source-file to a given destination-file.

CopyHead Source/A,Dest/A,Length/N:

CopyHead AmigaOS3.9:Videos/Jurassic_3.avi ram:test.avi 150000


Default length is 1000.


The supplied source compiles fine on my system with either SAS-C
or VBCC without warnings and may serve as example for ReadArgs()
usage and file-copying.

The supplied binary is compiled with SAS-C.


The binary and the source are supplied as is, I hereby declare this
package to be public-domain.

I take no responsibilty for any damage that may occur by using
this programm on any system.

You are using this at your very own risk!

One warning though, dest-files are overwritten without asking!

Have a nice day - Rudolph

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[generic]                 1661    2588  64.2% -lh5- 98d0 Jul  6  2002 CopyHead
[generic]                  882    2106  41.9% -lh5- d574 Jul  6  2002 CopyHead.c
[generic]                  694    1221  56.8% -lh5- 7052 Jul  6  2002 CopyHead.readme
[generic]                  134     186  72.0% -lh5- 6f38 Jul  5  2002 scoptions
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