At 2:50 PM -0700 10/5/99, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>i just have received some info on mpe/java i am trying to run the following
>copy statement, and i get the following error
>
>:copy /tmp/sample.profile , ./.profile
>      ^
>The last component of the pathname "/tmp/sample.profile" does not exist.
>(CIERR
>935)

Do a listfile of the sample file and see if it exists:

   :LISTFILE /tmp/sample.profile

The error message you're getting indicates that it doesn't exist. The "last
component of the pathname" in this case is "sample.profile". If you want to
verify that you have a /tmp directory you can do

   :LISTFILE /tmp

also

   :LISTFILE /tmp/@        shows all files in the /tmp directory
   :LISTFILE /tmp/         shows all files in the /tmp directory *and*
                           all files in any subdirectories below /tmp

>i always have run copy with periods between file, group and account.
>can someone tell me what this copy statement is actually trying to do and
>while it will not work.

You are mistaking HFS directories for MPE groups and accounts.  Although
the classic accounting structure (MPE) is now a subset of HFS (Posix), they
are not entirely interchangeable.  For example, the file CI.PUB.SYS (MPE
syntax) can also be referred to as /SYS/PUB/CI (Posix). However, the
reverse is not true. There may be a /tmp directory, but that doesn't mean
there's a "tmp" account in the MPE sense.

In your case the period in "sample.profile" is not a separator between an
account and a group, or between a group and a file. It is part of the file
name, and the file resides in the /tmp directory. And all of this is
outside the classic MPE filing structure. In anycase, the error message you
got is telling you that the file /tmp/sample.profile doesn't exist.

Hope this helps...






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