detert@lognet2.arpa (CMS David K. Detert) (12/23/88)
In article <1171@tank.uchicago.edu>, ed@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Ed Friedman) writes: >Although 1.3 ~{eems like an improved operating system, I was very >disappointed in the change to the diskcopy command. It now states that >you can only use this command from the WorkBench. Is there any way to >perform a diskcopy from a CLI or a shell? It is a real pain to be >working on a CLI window (with no WorkBench loaded), and decide that I >w{ant to copy a disk. To add insult to injury, when I start up the workbench >and try to diskcopy, it seems to do it all on just the internal floppy >drive, even though I have an external floppy drive attached. Am I missing >something here? > >Ed Friedman I use diskcopy from the CLI (Shell) all the time. I simply placed a path to the system directory in my startup-sequence. I also tested moving diskcopy to the c directory and that worked as well. I expect you've either have a bad copy or are doing something wrong. Have you checked the syntax - diskcopy df0: to df1:? I think the "to" is needed, but I haven't tried it without it. BTW. My copy shows 18392 bytes and a 24 Nov 88 date when using the list command. Hopes this helps! Dave CMSgt David K Detert ARPANet: detert<at>lognet2.arpa