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From: emanuele@overlf.UUCP (Mark A. Emanuele)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Converting DOS text files
Keywords: SCO ODT
Message-ID: <1828@overlf.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 15:31:05 GMT
References: <1477@pai.UUCP> <1990Oct16.134008.22319@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <232@csinc.UUCP>
Organization: Overleaf, Inc.
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In article <232@csinc.UUCP>, rpeglar@csinc.UUCP (Rob Peglar) writes:
> 
> I give up.
> 
> doscp -m a:file.ext dir/file



just try doing doscp -m a:*.* dir    and see what happens.
doscp can't expand wildcards on the dos drive.

what you have to do is this
for i in `dosls a:`
do
	doscp -m a:${i} dir
done
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Mark A. Emanuele
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