Date   : Wed, 09 May 2001 09:34:57 +0100
From   : "Rich Talbot-Watkins" <rich@...>
Subject: Re: DFS to ADFS

"Mike Tomlinson" <mike@...> wrote:

> In article <20010508214421.94079.qmail@...>, F.
> Haroon <haroonpd@...> writes
>
> >Hey folks, could you please help me out on something?
> >I have been trapsing around the TBL! site for some
> >decent utility or FS which allows conversion of files
> >between DFS an ADFS, without success.

I used to have to do it 'by hand', i.e.

<insert DFS disc>
>*DISC
>*INFO CODE
$.CODE   FFFF1A00 FFFF359D 00005200 002
>*LOAD CODE 1100
<insert ADFS disc>
>*ADFS
>*SAVE CODE 1100 +5200 FFFF359D FFFF1A00

Long-winded and tedious but it does work!

As far as *COPY goes, it does work but, as far as I remember, the syntax is:

*COPY <source file> <dest dir>

so you could say *COPY :0.$.Code :1.$ to copy the file into the root of drive
1.  ADFS never hung around asking you to swap discs if you were copying to
the same one - which is probably the problem you're having.

> Alternatively, if you are using a Master, you can specify the
> source and destination filing systems in the copy command like
> this:
>
> *Copy -disc-:0.$.File -adfs-:1.$.File
>
> will copy 'File' from the DFS disc in drive 0 to the ADFS disc
> in drive 1.  Might be useful if you only need to copy a few files
> over.

I think the command was actually *MOVE, which was not filing-system specific.
As far as I remember, *COPY wasn't particularly happy with transferring files
between filing systems...

Rich