Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!rpi!sigma From: sigma@jec302.its.rpi.edu (Kevin J Martin) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: MOVE files, not copy. Message-ID: <${8-+7=@rpi.edu> Date: 6 Mar 91 05:15:44 GMT References: <1991Mar4.044236.4842@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar4.171559.19950@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1991Mar5.142843.10514@linus.mitre.org> Distribution: usa Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: jec302.its.rpi.edu dhf@tatum.mitre.org (David H. Friedman) writes: >Check out the PC Magazine utility RED (Redirect), which will move the >directory reference of a file without moving the file itself. The old and >new directories must be in the same partition of the same drive. This is the utility I use, although it still isn't quite 'mv'. It doesn't handle cases where you actually need to copy and delete the file, and I don't think it handles multiple file specifiers... not that there's any tradition for that under MSDOS. But it would be nice. Now, what I'd really like to know is whether this will work when I move to large partitions (MS or DR DOS 5.0) on a large drive. Who knows? This is why it would be nice if Microsoft had gotten it right in the first place. As for the DOSSHELL, it's a pretty effective crippling of an already crippled command line. Don't get me wrong, I use MSDOS and love it as much as I can, but... Besides, does the DOSSHELL actually MOVE the file, or does it have all the usual problems? I wouldn't know - a friend of mine runs DOS 4.00, but deleted the useless shell to save space. -- Kevin Martin sigma@rpi.edu