Date   : Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:24:20 +0100
From   : "David Harper" <dl.harper@...>
Subject: Re: CPFS and MOVE

Ian Wolstenholme wrote:


>I tried copying files from within DOS Plus using GETFILE/PUTFILE a
> while back but it just seemed to mangle all the contents when I tried
> to read them in DFS/ADFS.

GETFILE and PUTFILE do not work very well, especially the versions that come 
with DOS-Plus 1.2. The updated versions supplied with DOS-Plus 2.1 are quite 
a bit better, though still a bit iffy.

MOVE (in DOS-Plus 2.1 only) is much better, and I have found it to be 
totally reliable, if rather touchy about getting the syntax just right. When 
using it to copy to or from ADFS you are best to have the ADFS disk in Drive 
:0, because ADFS itself will probably want to mount a disk in this drive 
before it does anything else, and if there is a DOS disk there it can spin 
for ever. So put the DOS disk in drive B:. Also give ADFS pathnames without 
the initial "$" - i.e. assume you are already in the root directory. No such 
problems with DFS; just remember to call it "-disc" (only the English 
spelling is accepted).

David Harper