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From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Better Copy Utility?
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Date: 25 Oct 90 14:11:06 GMT
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In article <5904@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>, dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear) writes:
|> On the subject of disk file manipulation, I would like to implement a move
|> command which, if the target is on the same floppy as the source, re-links
|> the directory entries rather than doing a copy/delete. Is it possible to
|> do this or will GEMDOS buffering confuse things? If buffering is a problem,
|> is there a way to tell GEMDOS its buffers are no longer valid?

This is no problem. Simply use the Frename() system call.

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