[iyonix-support] Re: COPY aborting on Zip and CDImage files
- From: "David J. Ruck" <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:30:46 +0000
Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message of 1 Feb, Steven Pampling <steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > As per Martins answer - if it is a zip and SparkFS is loaded it is both
> > a file and a directory.
>
> Of course.
>
> But it is the same object on both discs. When the copy command looks at
> one it says it is a file and when the same command looks at the other it
> says it is a directory. This is inconsistent - and is what I am trying
> to point out. If there was no such inconsistency, copying could proceed
> satisfactorily and my backups likewise.
Right this has gone on enough. As has been pointed out several times, this
is a generic feature common to all versions of RISC OS, and not something
specific to the Iyonix or RISC OS 5.
There are other backup programs such as !DirSync which handle images files
completely transparently, so any querks of the command line *copy command
aren't a show stopping issue.
When the source to RISC OS 5 is released by ROOL, you can then start
campaigning to change the behavior of this code. Before that time, there is
nothing to be gained by continuing to complain about it here.
Cheers
---Dave
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