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From: barton@holston.UUCP (barton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Problem w/doscp command.  Possible bug?
Summary: Believe it or not, this is an improvement!
Keywords: sco xenix doscp help bug
Message-ID: <429@holston.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 89 02:23:44 GMT
References: <4341@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Organization: Barton A. Fisk & Co.
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In article <4341@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, bt455s39@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Carmen Hardina) writes:
> 
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> I have 32 files that total 679,296 bytes.  I want to copy them to directory
> on the DOS partition, so I execute the following command.
> 
> # doscp *.MAC c:/egamac<Return>
> 
> It begins copying all the files in the current directory with the MAC extension
> after the 14th file (a total of 268,416 bytes) and displays this error.
> 
> doscp: no memory for buffers

Yes this is an improvement, the doscp I have will not allow wild cards
at all!!

However, this is easily worked around with a simple shell script such
as :

		for i in `ls *.MAC`
		do
		doscp $i c:/macdir
		done &


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