NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/19629

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From: [e-mail] (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: MOVE for Vms anywhere ? for those who missed it
Date: 21 Dec 1992 08:03:53 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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In article <[e-mail]>, NL0242T@NLZCL
(Oscar van Eijk) writes:
=> > In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:
=> >
=> >> The original question was not well-posed, since the querant didn't bother to
=> >> tell us exactly what this "MOVE" command was supposed to do.
=> >
=> > I doubt that; till now you're the only one who didn't seem to understand that.
=>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
=
=>     It's one thing when "querants" don't post a summary, it's another
=> when they don't even respond to (polite) private messages.  At that point,
=> I say screw 'em.
=>             -Ken
=
=I got too many replies two anser them all personally, therefore i *did* post
=a summary.
=Well then, once again the article I posted one day after my original question:

=I'ld like to thank the following people who responded to my MOVE- question:
=
=     [e-mail]    (Roy Omond)
=     [e-mail]       (Carl J Lydick)
=     [e-mail]             (Gordon Findlay)
=     [e-mail]  (Joe Lawrence)
=     [e-mail]              (Louis B. Moore)
=     [e-mail]         (Dan Wing)
=     [e-mail]  (Eric Mueller)
=     [e-mail] (Kimberly B. Churchwell)
=and offcourse everybody else who already followed-up/replied a message I haven't
=received yet.
=
=I was in fact looking for a program who would MOVE files (I know RENAME works,
=but not when I want to move files to another device), but the solution was
=very simple:
=
=    MOVE :== "BACKUP/DELETE"
=
=does exactly what I was looking for.

And, as Oscar's summary implies, I'm not the only one who didn't know whether
he was asking us to tell him about RENAME (which has all the features he SAID
he wanted, but won't move files from one disk to another) or BACKUP/DELETE
(which does everything he wanted, but which, if interrupted after copying half
the files requested, won't delete ANY of the files).

Allow me to point out that the System-V "mv" command had the same restriction
as does the RENAME command (i.e., under System-V, you couldn't mv across
filesystems.
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Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: [e-mail] | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL

Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.