Re: MCopy Woes MSDOS Copy

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <slrn4trbtn.h7c.scraft@bigpapa.nothinbut.net>,
 <scraft@bigpapa.nothinbut.net> wrote:
> 
> I have had a hell of a time using the "MCOPY" that is a part
> of the MSDOS tools (now sold with the BlueDisk).  I cannot
> for any reason copy a batch of files, although doing it one
> by one seems to work.

I expect it doesn't support wildcards.

The only option that comes to mind would be to write a script in GNO or
ORCA/Shell to run the program for each file.

Unfortunately, ORCA/Shell doesn't have a facility for doing a counted
loop, so you still have to list out all the numbers.  There may be a
third-party command which can do calculations on shell variables,
which would make things easier.

Try something like this:

for i in 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
  mcopy .d7 eamon{i}.dsk /dest/eamon{i}.dsk
end

You'll have to check the syntax of the "mcopy" command - I only used
it briefly a few years ago.  You'd have to replace the drive
specification with an appropriate one.

Assuming the above works, just copy and paste it a few times, and
change the numbers as appropriate to do all the copies you need.

If you are only using the simple shell that comes with the MS-DOS
tools, you are out of luck.


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