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Re: MS-DOS better than Applescript??
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Re: MS-DOS better than Applescript??


  • Subject: Re: MS-DOS better than Applescript??
  • From: rich allen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 12:16:44 -0800

> I want to do a simple thing: copy a file into the same folder using an other
> name. In (good?) old MS-DOS days this was a simple thing:
>
> Copy c:\abc\def.txt c:\abc\ghi.txt
>
> Call me stupid but I did not find a solution to do this in Applescript
> (MacOS X 10.1.5). After spending a few evenings in searching for a solution
> I still did not find one.
>
> How can I do such a copy in Applescript (or is MS-DOS really better;-) ?


since you are familiar with DOS

system ("cp /abc/def.txt /abc/ghi.txt")

-- hcir
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