From: kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Christoph Kukulies)
Subject: Re: Different devices
2 Dec 1996 15:13:32 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <199611272113.AA06254@egate.citicorp.com> from John Kelly at "Nov 27, 96 04:13:08 pm"
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> I just recently downloaded the GNU utilities on my NT machine and found out
> that 
> every utility (ls, mv,) works ok except that I cannot reference another 
> device (ie: cp filea a:/).  I have tried all types of variations to the
> device name but it still takes it as a filename or directory specification.
> Am I missing something???

Use cp file //a/file    or   cp  file //a


> 
>         Regards,
>          John
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
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