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From: micha@ecrcvax.UUCP (Micha Meier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PC transfer possibilities
Keywords: How?
Message-ID: <640@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 07:16:17 GMT
References: <3215@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: micha@ecrcvax.UUCP (Micha Meier)
Organization: ECRC, Munich 81, West Germany
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In article <3215@utastro.UUCP> sjk@utastro.UUCP (Scot Kleinman) writes:
>
>	I hate to admit the need to do this, but I need to
>transfer standard data files from an MS-DOS disk to an Amiga disk.
>The files are data obtained from our astronomical observations.  We use
>PC's at the mountain, but I would prefer to reduce the data on the Amiga.
>I tried to use a friend's A2000 with bridgecard, but the supplied routine,
>awrite, does not allow wild cards and thus, can transfer only one file at a
>time.

First, the DOS-2-DOS program does what you want, it allows wildcards when
copying the files. However, when you use the 'for' command of MS-DOS,
you can actually use any wildcards you want, e.g.
	for %i in (*.*) do awrite %i ram:%i


--Micha