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From: glewis@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Glenn M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP 1.1 Copy command
Message-ID: <6285@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 27 Apr 88 15:32:39 GMT
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Reply-To: glewis@cit-vax.UUCP (Glenn M. Lewis)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Keywords: Check the "#".


	I just noticed that both people who said the ARP 1.1 "copy" command
didn't work for them both had examples with the "#" character in the source
filename.  That is,

copy Mydisk#1:c ram:c
   and
copy "This is a long volume name#1:c" ram:c

	Could it be that the "#" character is messing up the ARP copy
command? I believe it is a wildcard meaning match one (or zero) or more of
the *following* character, in which case (for the first example, it would
match for volumes named:

Mydisk:, Mydisk1:, Mydisk111111:, etc.

And since a volume was not in one of the drives at the time of the copy,
it did a search on the volume names, and couldn't find it (and, of course,
will not put up a requestor for "anything that matches this pattern"), so
it ignored the command.

	Thus, it looks as if you will have to delimit this special wildcard
character by the normal delimiter.  What is it in AmigaDOS or ARP?  Is it
the "@"?  If it is, type:

copy Mydisk@#1:c ram:c

	That should hopefully work.

							-- Glenn Lewis
-- 
glewis@cit-vax.caltech.edu