[Coco] wildcards

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 12 May 2007, Robert Gault wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>><snip>
>> You probably will overflow the expansion buffer in the shell due to too
>> many files.
>>
>> I think dsave might be your friend there as it can write a script, that
>> when run, will do it as a series of copys.
>
>Gene's suggestion would be good if Dsave had single drive capability as
>Copy does. Try to use dsave for this purpose and you will get an error,
>"can't change to sys/sys".

I'd almost be tempted to call that a bug in dsave then.  Or a miss-launch, 
wrong argument maybe?

Of course I'm confused about the new dsave anyway, because the only way I can 
get it to do anything with the new syntax is come here to this list and ask 
how.  We need a pdf we can print and paste over the old page in the manuals.

>I think you are going to need to use a RAM disk. Copy the directory to
>the RAM disk with dsave, swap disks, and copy the RAM data back to the
>new disk.

If the ramdisk is big enough, but my cmds dir probably has 15+ megs of stuff 
in it so even that wouldn't be a one pass operation.

We used to have a "dircopy" utility, but recent kernel changes appear to have 
killed it, all I can get out of it now is "syntax error" with no indicator of 
what the error actually is.  That, when it worked, was handier than sliced 
bread and bottled beer combined.

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