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- Move 2.0a
- ---------
- Written by Asher Feldman
-
- Note: Move requires the Copy, Rename and Delete commands in your c directory.
-
- Move 2.0a requires kickstart 2.04 or higher. If you have not yet upgraded,
- you should use Move 1.1. (Or better yet, upgrade! :-)
-
- Changes since 2.0
- -----------------
- 2.0a contains a major bug fix, as well as a few minor ones. When you
- were moving a directory with one or more subdirectories with 2.0 it would
- delete all the subdirectories without moving them. Also when moving a
- directory, the files would me moved, but the actual directory wouldn't
- be moved. (Just deleted) All these problems have been fixed in this
- release.
-
- Changes since 1.1
- -----------------
- The biggest change is the ability to preform "true" moves (renames) on
- files automatically if they're on the same volume, while still correctly
- moving files across volumes. This makes moving files around on a single HD
- partition much faster. Also, Move now correctly works with the "" wildcard
- and all other 2.0 wildcards. (See below for usage.)
-
- What is it?
- -----------
- Move is a simple "move" command. It allows you to move files to and from
- any device or directory. It performs the same function as the Move command
- on a directory utility, but from the CLI or Shell. It can also be used as
- a Rename command.
-
- Move will also allow you to move file links.
-
- Usage
- -----
- Move [FROM] <arg1> [TO] <arg2>
-
- (The [FROM] and [TO] are optional)
-
- <arg1> is the file you want to move. It can contain wildcards, such as
- "#?.lha". Or "*.lha" if you are using a program such as Starburst to
- enable the * wildcard on your system.
-
- <arg2> is the destination. It can be a filename, directory or device.
- The "" wildcard may be used here, and stands for the directory you're in.
-
- To move the file "readme" to ram: you would enter: (FROM and TO not needed)
-
- Move FROM readme TO ram:
-
-
- To move all files that have the prefix "mod" to the directory DH0:Music
- you would enter:
-
- Move mod* DH0:Music
-
- To move "ram:readme" to your current directory you would enter:
-
- Move ram:readme ""
-
- If you want to move every file in one directory to another, it would be:
-
- Move <dir> <dir>
-
- Move can also be used to rename a file. To change the name of the file
- "SONG.MOD" to "MOD.SONG" you would enter:
-
- Move SONG.MOD MOD.SONG
-
- You can move multiple files without using wildcards as well. For example,
- to move the files "lha", "uux", and "slect" to c: you could enter:
-
- Move (lha|uux|slect) c:
-
- To move them all back to the current directory you would use:
-
- Move c:(lha|uux|slect) ""
-
- General Info
- ------------
- There were already two "Move" utilities floating around in the public
- domain that I knew of when I wrote this. Both have built-in copy and
- delete routines. I thought this was a waste of space, especially for those
- of us with very limited resources. Thus I wrote Move, which takes advantage
- of the "Copy", "Rename, and "Delete" commands already on everyone's system.
- This allows Move to be much smaller than the other "Move" utils, yet operate
- just as fast, or faster in some cases. Move will accept all the standard
- 2.0 wildcards (If you want to use * you must first activate it with a program
- such as Starburst)
-
- Move will obviously run much faster if you have the Copy, Rename, and
- Delete commands in residence.
-
- * * *
-
- NOTE:
-
- In the case of
-
- Move yy xx
-
- where the file xx already exists, xx will be overwritten without warning.
-
-
- How To Contact Me
- -----------------
- Send bug reports/comments, etc.. to:
-
- PORTAL: Wizard0
- INTERNET: asher@netcom.netcom.com
- Wizard0@cup.portal.com
-
- US Snail: (send money here :-)
-
- Asher Feldman
- 4791 Calle de Tosca
- San Jose, CA 95118
-
- If you find this program useful, then please feel free to send large
- sums of cash to the above address.
-
- And Now For The Legal Claptrap
- -------------------------------
- If this program causes your computer to blow up, or your hard drive to
- implode, or anything else that isn't too nice, then it's your fault, not
- mine. This program is not "guaranteed" to do anything. (although if it
- doesn't, please send me (E)mail!)
-
- This program may be freely distributed as long as this doc file is included.
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-
- A.F.
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