Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!ewout From: ewout@cbmvax.UUCP (Ewout Walraven - CATS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Not accepted DIR command Message-ID: <8057@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 19:11:53 GMT References: <3831@vtt.vtt.fi> Reply-To: ewout@cbmvax.UUCP (Ewout Walraven - CATS) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 45 In article <3831@vtt.vtt.fi> lucenius@vtt.vtt.fi (Jan, puh 4566511, Lue heti !) writes: >I bought some weeks ago a PD program for Amiga. This does not work >from WB (You can open the disk but you don't see the content). Thus >it must be used from CLI. That was not however possible, because >(assume that the name of the original disk is XXX) the name of the >disk was of the style "copy 2 of XXX". CLI does not understand or >accept the command "DIR copy 2 of XXX:" and if you write DIR DF0: Try DIR "copy 2 of XXX:" If arguments contain space(s), you need to embrace them with quotes, since arguments are normally separated by a space. Since you included both the command (DIR) and the argument in quotes, you specifically indicated just one argument, instead of a command with argument (and you got a "Please insert volume DIR copy 2 of XXX" requester). Each argument (or command for that matter) should have it's own set of quotes, if needed. >it won't give you the content of any other disk than that one which >was used when the system was booted or the CLI opened. Copy 2 of XXX >did not have WB or CLI on it. We also don't have any external disk >station. It worked when I renamed the disk to for example "XXXX", but >I don't understand why the CLI should not accept the same names as >WB. Is CLI really so dumb ? The swedish and finnish manuals do not >at least give any answer to that ? What is the explanation and how >is the format of a working CLI -command to get the directories of >other disks ? > >Jan dir volumename: (or dir "volume name:" if the name has spaces) You may want to copy the commands you need (dir, cd type, etc) to your ramdisk and assign c: to ram:, so you can swap disks more easily (note that if you want to use a command not in ram: you either have to assign c: back to Workbench1.3:c again or include the volume and pathname in the command. I.e. Workbench1.3:c/ed or df0:c/ed if the Workbench is present in the internal drive. ) You'll find more information about this in the AmigaDOS manual, published by Bantam. .ec