#DOWNLOADING AND FILES
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I am having trouble with transferring files onto a usable disk. I downloaded a
program a while back but I dont know how to get that program off of my
communications software onto a blank disk. I typed:
COPY AMIGATERM:STARS TO EXTRAS:BASICDEMOES off a CLI but it didnt work. I
also typed:
COPY DFO:STARS TO EXTRAS:BASICDEMOS but this erased my communications
software. Please tell me a usable command so I can enter that vast world of
downloading.
thanks
NEIL
Neil,
I hope that was a mis-type, you show in your message DFO: (letter o)
when it should be DF0: (number zero). In any event, you want to use this
command to do the copy–EXTRAS:BASICDEMOS/STARS
BASICDEMOS is a directory…and AmigaDOS also needs the destination
filename…the syntax is:
COPY <drive name>:<directory name if any><filename> TO <drive name if
different>:<directory name if in a directory><filename to be written>.
So, in the above, if you have 2 drives, you could have also typed..
COPY DF0:Stars TO DF1:BASICDEMOS/Stars (the capitalization does NOT matter)
presuming you have AmigaTERM in df0: (the internal drive) and Extras in the
external drive (df1:).
You can also download directly to the Extras disk, by specifying the
volumn name/directory/filename when asked for the receive filename. So in
that case, you could have typed Extras:Basicdemos/Stars and even with 1 drive,
the Amiga would have looked for volumn EXTRAS: and if it couldn't find it,
would have put up a requester asking you to insert Volumn Extras: into any
drive.
Don
Thanks Don. If I still have trouble I will get back to you. I am new to the
world of telecommunications, thats why I hardly know anything about
downloading. By the way it was just a typo df0(DFO).
Neil,
We were all new at this game at one time or another, feel free to ask
anything that comes to mind.
Don