Webutil_file.copy_file slow in copying files

Hi All,
I've read about this problem previously and I'm finally suffering from it myself.
It took between 5 and 10 minutes to copy a 500k file between two network drives connected to my client. How slow is it going to be for the 100Mb files we will want to copy?
Has anyone found a solution? IS the only speedy alternative to use client_host and the copy command? I was hoping that the webutil_file.copy_file was a more elegant solution to the file copying process!!!
TIA
Tony

Hello Tony,
That would be fine if I wanted to transfer from the AS to the client.
But I want to transfer between two network drives on the client,
these drives are not visible to the AS at the moment.My understanding is that the functions are executed on the client and therefor the network drives have to be visible to the client and not to the AS.
But currently i'm working in the OC4J and my server and client are the same.
So it is not really tested.
Is the AS to client copy much faster than the copy_file on the client?
Why would that be? Is it access to network drives on the client that is slow?Yes it is faster. The procedures use different implementations. Files don't get divided in chunks when webutil_file_transfer.AS_to_Client is used.
Bernd

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