cp problem on Win95, mv question
Mike Porter
mupi@kelly.webguy-prod.com
Thu Jul 10 16:26:00 GMT 1997
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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