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From: psfales@cbnewsc.att.com (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MOVE files, not copy.
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.002732.29251@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 00:27:32 GMT
References: <2851@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <5yN0X2w163w@cybrspc> <1991Mar4.121543.15760@uwasa.fi>
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In article <1991Mar4.121543.15760@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> In article <1991Mar4.044236.4842@cs.mcgill.ca> 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.
> 
> There are countless shells and tools around for doing this.  A very
> handy small alternative is /pc/pd2/dc106f.zip Directory Control from
> Michael Mefford from the PC-Magazine. 

As pointed out, there are many different utilities to do this - they
are easy to write.   For some mysterious reason, Microsoft provided
a rename facility through INT 21H (Function 56H), but then never provided
a command to invoke it.

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