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From: sschnellm@cc.curtin.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MOVE files, not copy.
Message-ID: <7319.27d3715f@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 5 Mar 91 02:22:23 GMT
References: <2851@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <5yN0X2w163w@cybrspc> <1991Mar4.044236.4842@cs.mcgill.ca> <1011@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
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In article <1011@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>, tlglenn@cs.arizona.edu (Ted L. Glenn) 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.
>> 
>> IS there a way to do this without the aid of software, or do I have to copy
>> each file, and then go back and delete it...?
> 
>      I've always wondered if DOS had the move command. To the best of my
> knowledge there is none. The closest I could come was to write a batch file
> to do the job myself.
> 

MS-DOS version 3.3 certainly has a MOVE.COM...