Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis 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> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 26 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: --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "If I were driving a Macintosh, I'd have to stop before I could turn the wheel."