Ping: Noel and brainfarts... and all others who get them.

I'm having some of these too. One right now is how or whether or not
one could use MS DOS move command to move files between HDD0 and HDD1.
I think [fart:]

move:
[[hdd0]\dir\fartfold\farts\bigfarts//[hdd1]\\othfarts/itstinks/farts]

Can you point me to "farting 101" sytax on this? My IBM DOS 3.3 manual
is not handy righ now and I can't seem to google it. Or my farts are
fizzing out...

Kind regards;

John

I dislike using the move command in DOS - to likely to lose the file in the
ether on the copy.

I'd use

COPY C:\olddir\*.* D\newdir\

then check that the files are there, and delete the old ones.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

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"John John" wrote in message
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I'm having some of these too. One right now is how or whether or not one
could use MS DOS move command to move files between HDD0 and HDD1. I think
[fart:]

move:
[[hdd0]\dir\fartfold\farts\bigfarts//[hdd1]\\othfarts/itstinks/farts]

Can you point me to "farting 101" sytax on this? My IBM DOS 3.3 manual is
not handy righ now and I can't seem to google it. Or my farts are fizzing
out...

Kind regards;

John

Thanks!

John

Noel Paton wrote:

I dislike using the move command in DOS - to likely to lose the file in the
ether on the copy.

I'd use

COPY C:\olddir\*.* D\newdir\

then check that the files are there, and delete the old ones.

Ha! It was rather pointless after all. A friend had called saying that
he couldn't move files using DOS. When I asked him why he was using DOS
he said it was because the OS couldn't see his slave drive but DOS
could. I was a bit perplexed so the next day I drove to his house.
Turns out he was trying to move NTFS files to W98. He figured because
fdisk could see the NTFS partition DOS would be able to copy the files...

John

John John wrote:

Thanks!

John

Noel Paton wrote:

I dislike using the move command in DOS - to likely to lose the file
in the ether on the copy.

I'd use

COPY C:\olddir\*.* D\newdir\

then check that the files are there, and delete the old ones.

Oh, dear!
Still - it's something we all discover sooner or later (some sooner than
later!g)


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"John John" wrote in message
...
Ha! It was rather pointless after all. A friend had called saying that
he couldn't move files using DOS. When I asked him why he was using DOS
he said it was because the OS couldn't see his slave drive but DOS could.
I was a bit perplexed so the next day I drove to his house. Turns out he
was trying to move NTFS files to W98. He figured because fdisk could see
the NTFS partition DOS would be able to copy the files...

John

John John wrote:

Thanks!

John

Noel Paton wrote:

I dislike using the move command in DOS - to likely to lose the file in
the ether on the copy.

I'd use

COPY C:\olddir\*.* D\newdir\

then check that the files are there, and delete the old ones.