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From: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: doscp problem
Message-ID: <423@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 90 05:32:14 GMT
References: <459@memqa.uucp>
Reply-To: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
Lines: 33

In article <459@memqa.uucp> qexal31@memqa.uucp writes:
>
>Here is my problem, I am running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 with 60 megs for Xenix and 
>20 megs for DOS. While under Xenix I am trying to copy several (144) files 
>from the DOS partition using doscp. Here is the command I use:
>             doscp c:clips/exe/*.* *.*
>I would think this command would copy all files in the exe directory to the 
>current Xenix directory, but I get an error message like: can't find *.*

The doscp manual is quite clear about this, wildcards are not supported.
I do this as follows:
1. dosls c:/clips/exe >> script.csh
2. chmod u+x script.csh
3. vi script.csh
   :1,$s;^;doscp c:/clips/exe/;
   :1,$s/$/ ./
   ZZ
4. script.csh

The first line lists the DOS filenames, one per line.
The second line allows script.csh to be executed.
The invocation of vi will change a line like
foobar
to
doscp c:/clips/exe/foobar .
within script.csh
Finally, line 4 does the dirty deed.  It usually takes me little more
than a minute or two to do this.  Ron.
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