[Coco] Drive letter issue in paths with toolshed os9 copy command on Windows

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Wed Sep 28 18:17:49 EDT 2016


On Sep 28, 2016, at 5:15 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:
> 
> So I was thinking a little about this, and I wondered how "scp"
> handled this situation.
> 
> http://superuser.com/questions/291826/scp-from-windows-using-the-colon-inclusive-full-path
> 
> One of the answer there said that if you are using MINGW shell you can
> use the syntax:
> 
> os9 copy \c\myfile.txt newdisk.dsk:2,myfile.txt
> 
> or if you are using cygwyn shell, then you can use:
> 
> os9 copy /cygdrive/c/myfile.txt newdisk.dsk:2,myfile.txt

They also let you quote "C:\FOO\bar.txt" which is how I use them at work.


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