[7979] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3K: dosread
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lavin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Aug 20 13:24:30 1991
From: lavin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 13:24:45 EDT
System name: laika
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3K (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Use dosread to get a bunch of files off a floppy
What's wrong:
unless I'm mis-reading the man page, it does not work as
advertised. It says:
-x extract files...(text deleted)...If no pattern is specified, all
files are used.
Doesn't this mean if you don't specify any filenames, it
just gets them all?
And when I try just typing "dosread -x" it says:
usage: dosread [-xdtw] [-v] [-R] [-a] [-f floppy] [-Ppart] [pattern]
aren't things in []'s meant to be *optional* arguments?
What should have happened:
I think it should have just nabbed all the files. Or the
man page and usage message should match the actual behavior.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
"man dosread"
