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From: C475141@umcvmb.missouri.edu (BRIAN WHITMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A potiential nice AmigaDOS comand for 1.4 or 1.5 or ?
Message-ID: <16087@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 23 May 89 18:07:37 GMT
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Lately I have been trying to reorganize a large portion of the files
on my floppy disks.  In doing so I have found that a AmigaDOS is missing
a command.  The command could be called MOVE.  I feel that it should
work as the following.

I have a file X in DF1:Mydir1 and I want to move it to DF1:. I would like
to be able to issue a command something like

     MOVE  DF1:Mydir1/x DF1:

and the following should happen.

   - A copy of file X is placed in the root directory
   - the original file in DF1:Mydir should be deleted.

Currently this takes two commands a COPY and then a DELETE.

I don't think that it woud be that hard for someone to do, if they have a
good understanding of how files and dir are recorded in the File Alocation
Table of the diskette.  I would think that all you would have to do is just
manipulate that table.  I don't think that you would have to actually touch
the data.

However you would have to touch the data if the command is extended to take
on the form of

     MOVE Device1:dir1/x Device2:dir

I don't know maybe this already exists as a command.  Please let me know
via email.  Responces will be posted if deemed necessary.

Thanks
Brian E Whitman