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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP copy command; also "script" capability
Message-ID: <45772@sun.uucp>
Date: 16 Mar 88 19:56:42 GMT
References: <329@ardent.UUCP>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <329@ardent.UUCP> rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes:
->My very favorite way of creating a short and sweet file for execute
->script testing (or AREXX script testing) is:
->
->    copy * to ram:test
->
->and under ARP, this just returns to the prompt immediately.  Under
->AmigaDOS copy, the "*" is taken to be the file handle of the console
->device, allowing me to redirect what I type at the console to a file.
->I missed it enough that I now keep both versions of copy handy, one
->renamed as indicated.

You can do this with the arp copy command using 
	copy to ram:test
as equivalent syntax. 

--Chuck McManis
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