Re: MCopy Woes MSDOS Copy

[gdr@eddore.myrias.com (Devin Reade)]

In article <slrn4ug5bj.a1u.scraft@bigpapa.nothinbut.net>,
 <scraft@bigpapa.nothinbut.net> wrote:
>>	mcopy 'c:/dir1/*' 'c:/dir1/dir2/'
>
>That is what's weird:  the tool's built-in "help/sample" function
>clearly shows a wildcard but if I type it it doesn't work!
>I enter 
>
>	mcopy .d10 *.dsk /aux/scratch /b

Try (single) quoting the asterisk from the shell and see what happens:

	mcopy .d10 '*.dsk' /aux/scratch /b

It may be that mcopy does its own filename globbing and that more
than two files/directories on the command line confuse it.

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