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From: youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (H. Bret Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: ARP 1.1 Copy command
Message-ID: <8008@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 00:08:56 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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Someone just posted a message regarding the Arp 1.1 copy command. They 
said something about spaces and/or quotes messing it up. The example
given was something like

    copy "My boot disk 1:c" to ram:c

It was stated that after the above was run from the startup-sequence
nothing happened. No error message and no copying. 

Well, I don't think the problem is the quotes or spaces BUT there is
a problem. I just installed arp 1.1 and my startup-sequence is similar.
One of my boot disks has a volume name of C_Disk#1 (note: NO spaces). 
I do a

    copy C_Disk#1:c to ram:c

This don't work either (i.e. no error mesg and no copying being done).
But if I do

    copy df0:c to ram:c

then everything works fine.

So, it seems to me that the problem is that the arp copy command does
not recognize disk volume names (I haven't checked if it has the same
problem with logical names in general). This is bothersome to me as I 
use two disks to get up and running and I didn't need to worry about
which disk went in which drive (i.e it didn't matter). Now (with arp)
I need to specify df0: and df1: explicitly (or keep the old AmigaDos
copy command around). 

I love arp and am generally pleased with it. I just wanted to bring this
to everyones attention in hopes that a fixed copy command could be posted
soon.

				Bret

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