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From: spencer@eris.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cp: A replacementfor AmigaDos Copy
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Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 01:18:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 10 01:18:10 1987
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In article <10166@decwrl.DEC.COM> tenny@z.dec.com writes:
>Mike Meyer at berkeley writes:
>>You use copy to move a file? That's odd - I use rename. Copy makes a
>>new copy, rename moves the current one to a new name (or directory).
> 
>Unfortunately this doesn't work across devices. (can't rename df1:xxx ram:xxx)
>Dave Tenny

Oh, too true.  Matt's Shell has that ability, and I always thought that it
shouldn't be that hard to write a program that would allow you to move files
around devices like you can around disk structures.  It should support wild
cards, and it should preserve the date stamp, then we can use copy (or cp) 
to copy files and use the current time stamp (and wild card here too).

Sorry, I was at CES while you all got to have your licks about who gets to
datestamp, I appologize for being late.

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