Ray

        Just tried this and it behaved as expected.

:listf syslog,2
Non-existent file. (CIERR 907)
:copy /tmp/syslog.log,syslog
:do
:copy /tmp/syslog.log,syslog
Purge old "SYSLOG.RJS.TECHSUP"?n
No copy was done. (CIERR 9113)
:

        I am on 7.0 with PP2, what version of MPE are you on?

Robert Schlosser _ MPE-CSM
Ochsner Health Plan
(504) 219-8134 

-----Original Message-----
From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:24 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: MPE COPY in POSIX


Hi all,

        I was copying some files while in MPE from a POSIX directory/file to
an MPE file.  I was a bit unnerved when I realized that the regular check by
MPE to see if the receiving  file already exists was circumvented...ouch!

        Is this the way MPE is supposed to work when accessing a POSIX type
file?  I'm aware that in the shell, a copy is not forgiving, but I was under
the impression the while in MPE, MPE should act as always?

COPY /DEVRNS/DATAWORK/CMF_ITEMS/ITEM-ATTRIBUTES_PRN,TRANSFER
COPY /DEVRNS/DATAWORK/CMF_ITEMS/ITEM-ATTRIBUTES_PRN,TRANSFER

As in the example (cut-paste from live system), MPE just did the copy.   :-(



TIA for your time.


Ray Shahan

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it behooves none of us
to talk about the rest of us"
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