Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!acs
From: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP 1.1 Copy command
Message-ID: <29950@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 27 Apr 88 06:44:37 GMT
References: <8008@pur-ee.UUCP>
Reply-To: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <8008@pur-ee.UUCP> youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (H. Bret Young) writes:
>   [ ... ]
>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.

Isn't # a DOS wildcard character?  I think it means "repeat the last char
an 0-indefinite number of times" (remember that ARP support both the Amiga
wild card chars as well as the Unix ones) so you're asking it to copy
C_Dis1:c or C_Disk1:c or C_Diskk1:c, etc. to ram:c.  Another thought just
struck me...don't you need to either append /* (or /?# for AmigaDOS types)
to the source filename or add the ALL switch?  I dunno, just food for
thought.

>
>				Bret
>
>usenet:  ihnp4!pur-ee!youngb
>ARPA:    youngb@eg.ecn.purdue.edu
>UUCP:    youngb@pur-ee.UUCP


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