[15137] in Athena Bugs
Re: problems with mread, mwrite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Chuang)
Fri May 9 13:29:30 1997
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:29:25 -0400
From: William Chuang <wchuang@MIT.EDU>
To: mjduff@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [15136]
In a bug report dated Fri, May 9, you wrote:
> A user has reported that mread and mwrite are not working on the Suns.
> mwrite writes to the user's directory and mread returns a file not
> found error.
>
> It looks like there was a recent update to these commands, which might
> explain the problem.
Hey, Mike!
Actually, my guess would be that the user forgot to specify "a:" as the
target directory for "mwrite" (it defaults to the current directory as
it writes both to/from UNIX -- this is in the manual page), and forgot
to prefix the mread filename argument with "a:" as well.
i.e., if the user does:
athena% add consult
athena% mwrite Mail/inbox/3
it will take that file and write it to the current directory under the
same name; adding an "a:" as the last argument should make it write to
the floppy (note that this is because you could do something like
"mwrite a:Mail/inbox/3" or "mwrite a:Mail/inbox/3 a:" so it gives all
possible combinations). Also:
athena% mread filename
will just check the current directory...
-William
