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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Looking for a "move directory" util
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.121151.25287@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 17 Oct 90 12:11:51 GMT
References: <113913@<1990Oct6> <21700010@sunc1>
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Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
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jaswal@sunc1.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>there's a command called mvdir that does what you want.  It 
>will move an entire subdirectory tree to anywhere else in the same
>filesystem (i.e. not across partitions or physical drives.)  
>Judging by the speed, it must recursively move individual files rather
>than copy/deleting them.  But unfortunately it still does get really 
>slow sometimes.  The cost of all the utilities is $20 w/ a decent

It moves every file separately. That's why it is so slow.
There is a possibility to move multiple files in one step
i.e. much faster but apparently nobody knows how to
use that msdos interrupt (AX=5D00).

When somebody knows how the destination has to look like so that
this msdos function expands the wildards correct then
please tell me! I'm just working on a faster MVDIR utility.
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