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Re: cp problem on Win95, mv question
- To: Mark Ruys <markr at cs dot kun dot nl>
- Subject: Re: cp problem on Win95, mv question
- From: Mike Porter <mupi at kelly dot webguy-prod dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:28:33 -0600 (MDT)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Mark Ruys wrote:
>
> 1) First a simple question with b18 and Windows NT. Is it true you
> can't `mv' files between disks. Namely,
>
> mv //c/work.txt //a
>
> generates an error. I can manually cp and rm the files, but not
> moving.
I can't help with your other problems, but under Linux, at least, mv can't
move accross volumes....even on the same disk if you are copying across
partitions. I don't necessarily know WHY this is happening, but it is
consistent with the behavior of the GNU utilities.
mike
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