[Coco] [coco] moving files on bootup

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Shellplus V2.1 and up do support wildcarding on the command line (usually  
by prefixing with a colon ':'). There was a publically released copy  
command ('cp') that worked well with it, allowing you to specify all of  
the source files using the wildcards, and then the last path was the  
destination drive (or directory). It also had a -m move option as well.

-- 
L. Curtis Boyle


On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:44:37 -0600, George Ramsower  
<georgeramsower at gmail.com> wrote:

> Willard,
>
>  As I said, the files will be changing.
>  This means some will be deleteted and some will be added or changed.  
> Therefore, a script to copy files would be constantly changing and will  
> require my attention. This is not an option. It has to be automatic.  
> Since the ram disk will start empty,thte routine should  just copy a  
> directory to the ramdisk upon startup.
>   A script to copy files will result in "Not Found"  error 216 because  
> they won't be in the directory the shell script calls on if the file is  
> deleted and files added won't get copied.
>  This will be a dynamic directory on the floppy and the desired routine  
> to copy a directory on eacnh boot should find the files and copy them to  
> the ram disk. The files will be different each time..
>  Dsave would requre at least two steps, and it also inserts an   
> undesired command , such as tmode - pause and tmode pause in the file it  
> creates. I don't use -pause, so it requires another line to fix that.
>  The reason I need this is for speed. The ram disk, as we all know, is a  
> lot faster.  This coco does not have a hard dirve and therefore, it SO  
> SLOW when accessing a mass storage medium(floppy). So, I have to use the  
> ramdisk for this application.
>
>> If you really mean to move the files, there are several "move" type
>> commands on rtsi, but I've had problems that might have been caused by
>> them.  YMMV.
>
>  I suppose then, these would not be acceptable for my application
> George
>
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