[988] in Release_7.7_team
Software suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naomi B. Schmidt)
Thu Jun 5 11:32:06 1997
To: release-77@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 11:31:58 EDT
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Would someone care to respond to the following Software Suggestion?
[2035] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace) Athena Software Suggestions 05/24/97 23:02 (26 lines)
Subject: copying files onto floppies
To: suggest@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 23:02:19 EDT
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
More people would use floppy disks more and have quota problems less
if copying files onto disks wasn't so frustrating. The should be a
way to say "Look, I got this unix directory tree. Just put the whole
damn thing onto the floppy disk as is, dammit."
Specific features of such a command would be:
1) Formating the disk if necessary.
2) Preserving long filenames.
3) Being really easy to use.
My dream command would be used like this:
% copydammit thesis a:
or
% copydammit a:thesis .
No options needed. No errors. No stupid questions. No headaches.
This shouldn't be too much to ask for.
+ Richard
PS: The OLC stock answers give a list of directions for copying
directories, but it's too complicated and doesn't work.
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