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From: lane@cs.dal.ca (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Looking for a "move directory" utility
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.113913.19507@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 6 Oct 90 11:39:13 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Hi.  I've collected hundreds of utilities over the years but there's one
that I've been waiting for, been really needing, but have never seen (and
of course have been to lazy to write myself :-).

What I want is something to simply move a sub-directory entry from one
directory to another.  I use RED, originaly from PC-Magasine, for moving
files but it won't touch directories.  RED simply calls a DOS function
(56h, I think) that does all the work...presumably it doesn't like
directories.  To move a directory, not only would you have to move the 
directory entries, but you would have to alter the first block of the
moved directory to change the starting cluster number of the ".." entry.
I've done it with Norton's enough times, it should be possible for a
program to do.

Another way to do it would be to use the method of RED but make it do a
recursive directory sweep (ie. an "/s" parameter).

Surely there must be something out there to do this?  If not, anyone
want to hack it together?

Sorry for the cross-posting, I'm still getting the hang of all these new
groups.

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John Wright      //////////////////     Phone:  902-424-3805  or  902-424-6527
Post: c/o Dr Pat Lane, Biology Dept, Dalhousie U, Halifax N.S., CANADA B3H-4H8 
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