Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!tronsbox!tron1
From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Not accepted DIR command
Message-ID: <[2528aba5:1551.1]comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 22:00:09 GMT
References: <3831@vtt.vtt.fi>
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>accept the command "DIR copy 2 of XXX:" and if you write DIR DF0:

The correct command would then be 

     DIR "copy 2 of XXX:"

The reason workbench will understand and CLI does not (without the ""'s) is
that Wokbench is reading that data from the ICOM as one string , ignoring
anythjing in that string until it hits a HEX 00. Sinceyou click on a icon,
there is no way to mistake which disk you mean.

CLI has to work with TYPED commands. Now , the space is commonly used to
seperate commands and options ... so, cli see's

     DIR copy of XXX: 

as 

     DIR copy    OPTIONS    of XXX:

By using the ""'s , yiou tell CLI that everything between them is one word.

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