Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!mcs213f.cs.umr.edu!mcastle From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: MOVE files, not copy. Message-ID: <2357@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> Date: 9 Mar 91 02:29:01 GMT References: <3J7-53$@rpi.edu> <2850@beguine.UUCP> Sender: news@umriscc.isc.umr.edu Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla Lines: 29 In article valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) writes: >uchuck@pelham.med.unc.edu (Charles Bennett) writes: > >>Alright this has gone on long enough. MS/PC-DOS provides a very nice and >>intelligent MOVE facility in Version 4.0x. Just start the DOSSHELL and >>run the file manager - its all there and mouse supported too. > >Yes, but no sane person uses a "DOS" (here we use the term loosely) whose >version # starts with a 4! [So this doesn't help] Hey! What about us who just got new systems that came with 4.01, and who doesn't want to run a pirated version of an OS?? Try to obey the law, and some scum calls you insane, harumph. :-> Anyway, there is an implementation of MOVE given in PC-Mag oct 30, 90 v9n18, p425. The language is BASIC. Basic's NAME F1$ AS F2$ will do the trick. It does a call to function 56h (they DID provide a command to invoke it, they just hid it well :-) to do the renaming. It will only work within the same disk. If you don't have access to that issue of pc-mag, it is available on simtel-20 in the directory pd1: in the file vol9n18.zip. If you don't have access to anonymous ftp (or not sure how to use it), drop me a line, and I'll send you what ever information is appropriate (I'm feeling generous today :-). -- Mike Castle (Nexus) S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU (preferred) | XEDIT: Emacs mcastle@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu (unix mail-YEACH!)| on a REAL Life is like a clock: You can work constantly, and be right | operating all the time, or not work at all, and be right twice a day. | system. :->