Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!jeffb From: jeffb@world.std.com (Jeffrey T Berntsen) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: 4dos misfeature? Message-ID: <1991Mar7.142134.9607@world.std.com> Date: 7 Mar 91 14:21:34 GMT References: <1991Mar6.192824.9889@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1828@manta.NOSC.MIL> Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die Lines: 19 north@manta.NOSC.MIL (Mark H. North) writes: >In article halcyon!ralphs@seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) writes: >> >>Nope, use the move command for what is was intended, not as a replacement >>for rename. >> >If the move command is not supposed to be used for this purpose the *polite* >(read non-RUDE) thing for it to do us warn you of impending disaster not >trash your disk. Jeesh. Of course, you could do what I do: Use PCOPY instead and use 4DOS's command alias capability to replace the copy and move commands with PCOPY commands. I've never had a problem with moves and it'll act more or less like UNIX's mv command (do anything you ask it to with results you expect). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey T. Berntsen | Looking for a good .SIG jeffb@world.std.com | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------