Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!ttds!draken!duvan!drs-ano
From: drs-ano@duvan.nada.kth.se (Gunnar Nordmark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ARP 1.1 Copy command
Message-ID: <340@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 29 Apr 88 10:52:54 GMT
References: <8008@pur-ee.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@nada.kth.se
Reply-To: nordmark@epsilon.stacken.kth.se (Gunnar Nordmark)
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
Lines: 35
Keywords: ARP Copy
Summary: Don't use '#' in file or volume names

In article <8008@pur-ee.UUCP> youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (H. Bret Young) writes:
>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
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

NO! NO! NO!!!!

The problem is that you use '#' in the volume name. ARP recognize this
as some kind of wild card and gets screwed up.
This is indeed a bug, but a minor one in my opinion.

So, don't abandon ARP :-) Just don't use #:s, *:s or ?:s in file names.

Besides,
Making something *completely* compatible with AmigaDOS is a job that
I don't even wish my worst enemys to do. :-)

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