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From: drs-ano@duvan.nada.kth.se (Arne Nordmark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ARP
Summary: Copy command can't copy directories (?)
Keywords: ARP, Copy, cp
Message-ID: <266@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 7 Jan 88 16:26:54 GMT
Sender: usenet@nada.kth.se
Reply-To: NORDMARK%vaxkab.lne.kth.se@enea.UUCP
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
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The ARP package which was recently posted to .binaries is truly superb.
What a relief to be able to type 'Delete *' again!
(Or better yet: Delete *multi*tasking* ALL)  That #? was driving me crazy.

One little question, however: cp    (Yes, there is a command called that)
When you type it by itself you get the following message:
  usage: Copy (wildcards) [TO] (wildcards or dir) [ALL] [QUIET]

"Ah, yes. It must be the ARP version of Copy" I concluded, and quickly deleted
the old AmigaDOS version and renamed the new cp as Copy.

When I rebooted I got a bit disapointed though. The message
  Can't open SYS:c
  Copy failed returncode 20
was thrown in my face. "And this was supposed to be compatible".

After a bit experimenting with the new Copy, I found that it don't seem
to copy any directories at all. Just plain files.
Thus one of my favourites: Copy DF0: DF1: ALL QUIET , don't work.

If anybody out there has some info on this I would really appreciate if
he (, she or whatever) dropped me an e-letter.

  - Gunnar Nordmark -       

This is my address and it WILL work :-)  NORDMARK%vaxkab.lne.kth.se@enea.UUCP

( That's right, I'm posting this from my brother Arne's account again.
  He'll kill me, but don't worry, I'm used to it. )