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From: mhr@mendip.UUCP (MHR {who?})
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MOVE files, not copy.
Summary: 4DOS yes, MS-DOS no, DR-DOS maybe.
Message-ID: <15718@mendip.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 91 23:34:38 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.044236.4842@cs.mcgill.ca> <1011@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <7319.27d3715f@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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In <7319.27d3715f@cc.curtin.edu.au>, sschnellm@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> 
> MS-DOS version 3.3 certainly has a MOVE.COM...

This came as such a shock to me that I had to go look.  I have at least
three different versions of MS-DOS 3.3, and _none_ of them has a
move.com or a move.exe.  Maybe you have another source besides ACER, NCR
or IBM for MS-DOS?

Now, 4DOS has a move command (internal, like copy and rename), and I
don't remember if DR-DOS 3.31 had one or not - it might have.  And there
is a utility available from PC-MAGAZINE called MOVE.COM (listed as
"Selective file backup", and there is XCOPY.EXE in MS-DOS, and many
others abound elsewhere (outside of MS-DOS)....

But definitely NOT MS-DOS.  When did Microsoft do something this right?

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