Les_Ferch@MTSG.UBC.CA (11/02/90)
The COPY command included with the Kermit distribution has the unfortunate feature of giving the copy of a file the current date rather than the same date as the original. So I looked for a better copy command. I found one that handles the date correctly, but it will not allow a partial pathname for the destination file. Example, if you are in a directory /MYDISK/APPLEWORKS/LETTERS and want to copy the file /HERDISK/HITHERE you would have to type COPY /HERDISK/HITHERE,/MYDISK/APPLEWORKS/LETTERS/HITHERE whereas with the one that is currently incuded, you would type COPY /HERDISK/HITHERE,HITHERE. Another difference is that this other copy command does not warn you when you are about to overwrite an existing file. This could actually be useful at times, but in general it's kind of dangerous. If anyone knows of a COPY command for BASIC.SYSTEM that has the best of both commands described above, please let me know. Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca