Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu!vkr
From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: multiple file copy using arp copy, how?
Message-ID: <555@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 88 19:52:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: osupyr.555
References: <336@vedge.UUCP> <1234@csuna.UUCP>
Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept
Lines: 8

In article <1234@csuna.UUCP>, acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (News Manager) writes:
> AmigaDOS's wild cards are surprisingly powerful:
> 	copy x#?|file1|file2|f3|f4 to dest_dir
> Unfortunately, the ARP Copy won't do this:  it only gets the first file.
I was successful once with
     copy (file1|file2|...) to dest_dir
I was puzzled (and still am) as to why the parantheses made a difference.
I have not had an occasion to ry it again. Blame my memory if this fails.