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homa

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Posted: 10:27am 24 Dec 2023

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Hello,
who can help me with the file operations with the Pico?

In the draft user manual for Beta (5.08.00b5) it says on page 90:

The special entry "." represents the parent of the current directory and "."
represents the current directory. "/" is the root directory.

How are parent and current distinguished?

I also cannot copy all files from a directory on the SDcard to the internal memory A: with one command!

copy b2a "*" to "."
Error : The path name format is invalid

Please help me.
Examples are welcome. Thank you very much!

matherp
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Posted: 11:14am 24 Dec 2023

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Looks like a typo - parent should be ".." as per standard

Don't use B2A etc. these version don't support wildcards

e.g. assuming current disk is "A:"

COPY "B:/*.bas" to "."

Edited 2023-12-24 21:38 by matherp

Geoffg

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Posted: 12:06pm 24 Dec 2023

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Yes, I only discovered this typo a few hours ago (serendipity?)
The parent should be ".."

Geoff

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matherp
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Posted: 12:28pm 24 Dec 2023

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Geoff

The A2A etc versions are redundant as you can now use the disk designator in the copy command. They also don't have the bulk copy capability so I would propose you remove them from the manual and I'll get rid in the firmware

homa

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Posted: 02:26pm 24 Dec 2023

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matherp said
Don't use B2A etc. these version don't support wildcards

e.g. assuming current disk is "A:"

COPY "B:/*.bas" to "."

Thx
Edited 2023-12-25 00:27 by homa

Geoffg

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Posted: 03:41am 25 Dec 2023

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matherp said The A2A etc versions are redundant as you can now use the disk designator in the copy command. They also don't have the bulk copy capability so I would propose you remove them from the manual and I'll get rid in the firmware

Will do.

Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net

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