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From: youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (H. Bret Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP 1.1 Copy command
Message-ID: <8018@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 88 20:14:22 GMT
References: <8008@pur-ee.UUCP> <29950@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (H. Bret Young)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <29950@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) writes:
>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.
>>
>-- 
>Tony Sumrall acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!acs

Your right (partly). I tried the command without the '#'. The Arp copy
then worked. However, the AmigaDOS copy command works either way. 
It seems that Arp is somewhat more consistent with its parsing of
arguments except that the Arp relabel command will also let me label a
disk with a volume name containing a '#' (same as the AmigaDOS relabel).
So, it seems that the Arp copy works if you are careful of how you
label your disks. I guess I shouldn't be using names containing special
characters anyway (it didn't cross my mind much though as the relabel
command let me do it). But if Arp is supposed to only ADD functionality
to the existing commands and not change any functionality then I would
still call this a bug. I can live with it though.


					Bret






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