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From: raulmill@sal63.usc.edu (Raul Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: moving products to the root
Summary: yes, amigados can be made to work
Keywords: amigados, move, rename
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Date: 11 Mar 89 07:47:54 GMT
Expires: 30 Apr 89 07:00:00 GMT
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In article <790@zehntel.UUCP> donw@zehntel.UUCP (Don White) writes:
[various quotes relating to moving files into root directory deleted,
including statement that arp rename is necessary as amigadog doesn't
support wildcard renames]

>
>      All you have to do is use the copy command using the ALL argument.

If you have 1.3 software, you can also use 
SPAT RENAME whatever/#? :
and it works fine.  copy isn't so nice for moving files around, unless
you have plenty of free space (say, an extra disk) and time.


>      Amigados (sometimes called Amigadog) is capable enough (except for the
>      missing current directory identifier) to do whatever I have needed to 

Use "" to refer to the current directory.

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