Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > how am I supposed to use mmove? > > I think it should be called just like mcopy. Though the syntax may look superficially similar, that's about the only connection between mmove and mcopy. > However, while > 'mcopy a: /dos/e' works, Here,

Re: -I- Re: mtools: mmove usage sorry, could not help...

1998-03-04 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: > I never could get the mtools to have full functionality... especially on > logical drives in extended partitions for dos. Is that how you do it? just > do > a > mcopy a: /dos/e? and it'll hunt for logical partition named E:? I tried > mcopy >

-I- Re: mtools: mmove usage sorry, could not help...

1998-03-04 Thread Carroll Kong
I never could get the mtools to have full functionality... especially on logical drives in extended partitions for dos. Is that how you do it? just do a mcopy a: /dos/e? and it'll hunt for logical partition named E:? I tried mcopy a: e: and no go (a while back in FreeBSD). I got arou

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > > The error message is a bug, but DOS-wise "a:" is a non-sensical > > source; DOS wouldn't accept it for either copy or move. > > "a:*.*" is the answer but you'd have to quote it. That may or may > > not

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread M.C. Bezemer
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > The error message is a bug, but DOS-wise "a:" is a non-sensical > source; DOS wouldn't accept it for either copy or move. > "a:*.*" is the answer but you'd have to quote it. That may or may > not be the problem though. > I've tried some things on

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 12:55:24PM +0100, Peter Paluch wrote: > > You might try to use \* instead of * to disable the shell's filename > > expansion. (I have to do that when I'm in tcsh). > > I don't know about you, but have a look what it complains about: > > frcatel:~$ mmove a: /archive/users/p

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > You might try to use \* instead of * to disable the shell's filename > expansion. (I have to do that when I'm in tcsh). I don't know about you, but have a look what it complains about: frcatel:~$ mmove a: /archive/users/peterp/pokus Path component "archive" is not a directory Bad

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread M.C. Bezemer
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: > > Thank you for your reply. > > On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: > > > As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does > > not harm to try out: > > > > mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever > > Well, I tried that bef

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Thank you for your reply. On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: > As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does > not harm to try out: > > mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever Well, I tried that before and it didn't work either. Best regards, Ulf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Peter Paluch
Hello, == > how am I supposed to use mmove? As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does not harm to try out: mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever I have not tried it though. All the best, Peter *

mtools: mmove usage

1998-03-04 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, how am I supposed to use mmove? I think it should be called just like mcopy. However, while 'mcopy a: /dos/e' works, 'mmove a: /dos/e' doesn't. The man page and the info file didn't help. Any hints? Or is it a bug? Thank you, Ulf -- #include -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN