treated as a carriage return only, so each line overwrites the previous one. To produce separate line, use followed by to produce a line feed and carriage return. Ctrl J Ctrl M Copying files and data COPY source1 [source2] ... destination The COPY command is a smart file copier. It copies from character devices or files onto character devices, files or directories. The general format is: COPY source1 source2 ... destination If COPY detects an error it continues attempting to copy all of the specified files. The current copy movement is printed out as the copying proceeds; this indication of what is happening may be disabled with the option 1 0 command.
When the source of a copy is a character device the copy continues until an end-of-file character is received. This character is normally a Ctrl D , but may be altered with the option 6 4 command. Whenever possible the COPY command preserves the modification date, name and attributes of copied files. The permissible formats of thiscommand are described in the following examples. A pathname refers to a valid 1616/OS filename. A device is the name of a character device, such as CON: or SA: A directory is the pathname of an existing 1616/OS directory. COPY pathname1 pathname2 Copies a single file COPY pathname1 pathname2 ... directory Copies one or more files into a directory COPY device:
pathname Copies from the device into the named file COPY pathname1 pathname2 ... device: Copies the contents of one or more files onto a character device COPY pathname1 pathname2 device1: pathname3 device2: Copies the contents of files as well as characters from a device onto a character device Moving files and data MOVE source destination The MOVE command is similar to the COPY command except that when a source file is copied to a new file the original file is removed. However a MOVE from a fileto a character device does not resultin thesource filebeing deleted.
A MOVE with a character device as a source behaves the same way as in a COPY, which although not precisely consistent, is what is usually desired (and is also the only possible way of handling this situation). Page 66 User Tutorial Manual 1616/OS Commands