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From: bgeer@javelin.es.com (Bob Geer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MOVE files, not copy.
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.141726.713@javelin.es.com>
Date: 4 Mar 91 14:17:26 GMT
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storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>After a rather lengthy search through the MSDOS manual, I still am at a loss
>on how to MOVE files instead of just copying them.

If you don't have access to the many utilities which will do this,
most languages (certainly TurboC & Turbo Pascal) have a rename()
function or some such...a program can be dashed off which will do the
move without copy/delete.
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