Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!uflorida!gatech!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu!vkr From: vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: multiple file copy using arp copy, how? Summary: Let COPY use MULTIARG Message-ID: <571@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 6 Jun 88 19:50:26 GMT References: <336@vedge.UUCP> <1234@csuna.UUCP> <2076@sugar.UUCP> <532@sas.UUCP> Organization: Ohio State Math-Stats Dept Lines: 6 In article <532@sas.UUCP>, toebes@sas.UUCP (John Toebes) writes: > The implementation does not allow for the alternative operator '|' except > within parenthesis. If AmigaDos does handle this correctly and consistantly > then it might be worth adding. Most of the time when I want to use | I I am not in the right directory anyway. If the `from' argument of copy can be `multiargs', I will be happy to live with the limitation mentioned. May be a poll should be run.