[Coco] wildcards

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Sat May 12 18:45:08 EDT 2007


Gene Heskett wrote:
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> 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 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.



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