From:	davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Dave Pearson)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: When in Rome...
Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 1998 21:41:05 GMT
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On Wed, 08 Apr 1998 18:10:03 GMT, Edward F. Sowell <sowelled AT home DOT com> wrote:

> will not work, failing at the move. Says "Too many parameters - /spark"
> Apparently, the / are not converted to \ for DOS commands. If I change
> the move to
> 	move myfunct.obj f:\spark\doc\examples\int
> it doesn't give an error message, but the file is renamed
> fsparkdocexamplesint!
> [SNIP etc....]

I guess you've got two options. The first is, if you don't like the way it
works, change it, you've got the source. The second (and, IMHO more
sensible) approach would be to install the fileutils, forget about "move"
and use "mv" ("cp" instead of copy, "rm" instead of del, etc...).

Sometimes it is better to be "Roman" no matter where you are. Well, it
seemed to work for the Romans. :-)

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