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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Not accepted DIR command
Message-ID: <125684@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 89 17:24:07 GMT
References: <3831@vtt.vtt.fi>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In article <3831@vtt.vtt.fi> lucenius@vtt.vtt.fi writes:
> ... CLI does not understand or accept the command "DIR copy 2 of XXX:" 
> and if you write DIR DF0: 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. 

When you want to get a directory listing of a disk whose name has embedded
spaces in it, use quote marks. If you had typed :

1> dir "copy 2 of XXX:"

It would have worked properly. Also if you will use that disk a lot and
you get tired of typing the spaces, you can first assign it a different
name with the command :

1> assign XXX: "Copy 2 of XXX:"

And then you can look at it with :

1> dir XXX:


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