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From: ti@gumby.Altos.COM (Ti Kan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MOVE files, not copy.
Message-ID: <4713@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 91 22:46:51 GMT
References: <2851@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <5yN0X2w163w@cybrspc> <1991Mar4.044236.4842@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar4.171559.19950@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Reply-To: ti@altos.COM (Ti Kan)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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There has been numerous requests of this sort for utilities that
DOS does not provide, and there are usually many different suggestions
for various public-domain utilities that you can download of anonymous
FTP.  Well, that's all fine, but being on Usenet and most of you use
UNIX, I think the best solution would be to buy MKS Toolkit for your
PC.  MKS Toolkit gives you the ability to do all these things you've
taken for granted on UNIX, THE UNIX WAY.  Same command names, same syntax,
same options, and even the same (much better) UNIX wildcard expansion
rules.  Moreover, When using Korn Shell and the MKS utilities, the
command line buffer size is 5000 characters instead of the normal 128.
If you want, you can have your PC configured to run in a very UNIX-like
environment, complete with init and login, Korn Shell and vi, and
grep, and awk, and sed, ls, rm, and on and on...  Heck, MKS even claims
a certain amount of POSIX compliance, while underneath it is completely
MS-DOS, so you can still run all your normal DOS binaries.  I have
my DOS-based PCs all running MKS, and some of my friends had a hard
time believing that it was really DOS and not UNIX!

In short, MKS Toolkit is heaven-sent for anyone used to the flexibility
of the UNIX environment, but is stuck to work under DOS.  It is worth
every penny for the two-hundred some odd bucks.

In article <1991Mar4.171559.19950@ucselx.sdsu.edu> butler@saturn.sdsu.edu (Michael Butler) writes:
>Have you looked at the dos command "rename" ?

Rename does just that, it renames the file.  It does not allow you
to move the file from one directory to another.  It is only a subset
of the "mv" functionality.  And yes, you get "mv" with MKS Toolkit.

A very happy MKS user... -Ti
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