Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A potiential nice AmigaDOS comand for 1.4 or 1.5 or ?
Message-ID: <8504.AA8504@heimat>
Date: 8 Jun 89 23:41:39 GMT
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In Message <6955@xyzzy.UUCP>, poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier)  writes:
>In article <8380.AA8380@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>>In Message <16087@louie.udel.EDU>, C475141@umcvmb.missouri.edu (BRIAN WHITMAN) writes:
>>
>>>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:
>>
>>  WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WROMG! WRONG!
>>  The command already exists (has since before V1.0) and its called "RENAME".
>>  For example:
>>    RENAME  DF1:Mydir1/x DF1:
>>  Will do exactly what you want.
                         ^^^

>Wromg, eh?

    Yes wrong. For what Brian wanted to do, rename will work perfectly.

>            What *I* want is for rename to accept multiple files and a
                   ^

    What you want to do is not only different, but it was also not the
	question to which I was answering.

    It is possible to write such a command to do what you want. Matter of
	fact it could be written using built in Lattice functions. Not a hard
	project at all.


    Naff off

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