[Coco] need help on how to copy a directory

Kip Koon computerdoc at sc.rr.com
Sat Feb 6 04:09:27 EST 2016


Hi Richard,
Dsave is definitely the way to go.  Once you understand how to use dsave, it is a breeze to copy one computer directory structure or the whole disk image file by file and directory by directory.  Check it out.

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Richard Hawk
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 2:47 AM
> To: Coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] need help on how to copy a directory
> 
> I have the newspaper in vcc drive 0
> 
> I am trying to copy it to my /dd/apps folder
> 
> At the shell I tried all the copy commands, but I am trying to copy the
> whole disk one directory and all of its sub directory's to a directory I
> made on /dd/apps/newspaper
> 
> I tried copy -w /d0/newspaper /dd/apps/newspaper
> 
> I tried copy -w *.* /dd/apps/newspaper
> 
> I could create all the directory I guess and copy them all over to their
> correct directory's but I thought there was an easier way
> 
> Thanks again and yes I been reading the manuals on line
> 
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