fisher@sc2a.unige.ch (02/11/91)
In article <29941@usc>, ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: > > Is there a "deep" reason why the mv of MKS toolkit doesn't allow > you to mv a directory the way the Unix mv does? > The "deep" reason is that the underlying MS-DOS function call doesn't allow it. To implement a directory-move, you can either rewrite some of the file managment functions (which are very version-dependant) or change the directory to a normal file during the move (quite a risky thing to do!). Markus Fischer, Dpt of Anthropology, Geneva CH