AmigaDos

Hi. When using the shell to copy from one drive to another could someone explain the commands?

For example: If I was copying from DH0: called 'System' a hello.txt file to DH1: called Work I assumed I would use

Copy hello.txt system:Work

It didn't seem to work.

Another example (not about copying)

I can get programs installed no problems by following the tutorials such as this by typing lha x programs:WHDLoad_usr.lha programs:

but I'd like to understand better what I'm typing despite it working in this instance.

Is the first 'programs' the location of the file and the final one the destination of the install? Whats the x for and why start lha? (I understand the WHDLoad_usr.lha is the file I working with) but I'd like to understand the rest of the command because I hate blindly typing things because when it doesn't work (like copy) I'm stuck.

Cheers

[daxb]

You always can type (in a shell) the command with a "?" following to get the template. For example:

copy ?
FROM/M,TO/A,ALL/S,QUIET/S,BUF=BUFFER/K/N,CLONE/S,DATES/S,NOPRO/S,COM/S,NOREQ/S:

Example:
copy FROM work:folder/morefolder/filename TO ram: CLONE

You can leave FROM and TO but you should use CLONE as default. In the AmigaDOS manual you have a description of all OS commands.

For LHA just type "lha ?" in a shell to get some short help but read the documentation.

[mailman]

Originally Posted by Hockmiester

Hi. When using the shell to copy from one drive to another could someone explain the commands?

For example: If I was copying from DH0: called 'System' a hello.txt file to DH1: called Work I assumed I would use

Copy hello.txt system:Work

You should type:

Copy SYSTEM:hello.txt Work:

or

Copy FROM SYSTEM:hello.txt TO Work:

[ajk]

@Hockmiester

The syntax with lha is "lha x archive.lha (target)", target will be the current directory if you specify nothing else.

You are not "installing" anything really, you are unpacking an .lha archive just like you would a .zip/.rar/.tar.gz on other systems. It just often happens to be the case that programs do not require any further installation, but they might.

The option "x" means unpack. Check the lha docs for more if you are interested.