Problem w/doscp command.  Possible bug?
    barton 
    barton at holston.UUCP
       
    Sun Jul 16 12:23:44 AEST 1989
    
    
  
In article <4341 at uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, bt455s39 at uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Carmen Hardina) writes:
> 
[verbage deleted]
> I have 32 files that total 679,296 bytes.  I want to copy them to directory
> on the DOS partition, so I execute the following command.
> 
> # doscp *.MAC c:/egamac<Return>
> 
> It begins copying all the files in the current directory with the MAC extension
> after the 14th file (a total of 268,416 bytes) and displays this error.
> 
> doscp: no memory for buffers
Yes this is an improvement, the doscp I have will not allow wild cards
at all!!
However, this is easily worked around with a simple shell script such
as :
		for i in `ls *.MAC`
		do
		doscp $i c:/macdir
		done &
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