From: mupi@kelly.webguy-prod.com (Mike Porter) Subject: Re: cp problem on Win95, mv question 10 Jul 1997 19:36:29 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: Mark Ruys Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <199707100915.LAA20177@sisyphus.cs.kun.nl> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".