I'm pretty sure the cygwin installer lets you select what to install, but
yes, it probably is.

Dan


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Charlie Noah <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Wouldn't cygwin be a bit of overkill for what I want to do?
>
>      On 07-28-2014 4:48 PM, Daniel Klein wrote:
>
> Another option would be to install cygwin and use the unix-like 'cp'
> command.
>
>  Dan
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Charlie Noah <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Tony, you and Simon have given me an idea. Since I'll be doing this
>> again from time to time, it's probably worth the effort to build an
>> EXECUTE.DOS.CMD utility, which would prefix a DOS command with char(255): k
>> and make it do as OS execute. Then I could structure a paragraph line like
>>
>> EXECUTE.DOS.CMD copy "e:\TinyBearMarketing\GOLDCREST\Images\Purple Martin
>> Decoys & Starling Excluder Doors\PME2.jpg"
>> e:\TinyBearMarketing\GOLDCREST\Images\Export
>>
>> substituting each image name. I think this might be easier than going the
>> short-directory name route, although that's a trick I'll need to remember.
>> Never know when it will come in handy.
>>
>> There are about 16,000 image files, and I was planning to do them about
>> 1000 at a time. While they're in the destination folder I am going to
>> resize them, and I'm not sure what 16,000 files at once would do to the
>> resizer program - or a paragraph or batch file, either, for that matter. It
>> might be an interesting experiment.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>> On 07-28-2014 3:34 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote:
>>
>>  I dunno if jBase is the same as D3 in this regard but when using the
>> DBMS Copy verb I think the data is pulled into the DBMS first before it's
>> written back to the OS. That's going to be Very slow. It would be better to
>> use the DBMS to script command-line operations. You can write a large
>> script and execute it all once. You can do an Execute "!Copy..." of
>> individual files. Or you can create a huge OS command and then do a single
>> Execute.
>>
>>  And I could be completely off... :)
>>
>>  As to paths with spaces in them, I wrote a utility a while back which
>> retrieves the short-directory name using the Windows DIR command. Then I
>> used that in my commands to eliminate grief from spaces. I don't think
>> that's necessary here but if you need to do that it's possible.
>>
>>  HTH
>>  T
>>
>>
>>    On Monday, July 28, 2014 1:18 PM, Charlie Noah wrote:
>>
>>
>>   I have several thousand image files I want to copy from various
>> Windows folders (a couple hundred) to one Windows folder. My plan was to
>> cheat and build a paragraph to copy the image files. The problem comes when
>> the source folder name has spaces in it. It seems COPY doesn't like them,
>> and truncates the file name (actually the folder name) at the first
>> space.
>>
>> Example:
>> COPY "e:\TinyBearMarketing\GOLDCREST\Images\Purple Martin Decoys &
>> Starling Excluder Doors\" PME2.jpg
>> results in:
>> ** Error [ 201 ] **
>> Unable to open file "e:\TinyBearMarketing\GOLDCREST\Images\Purple
>>
>> I've tried with and without quotes, so that isn't it. Has anyone found a
>> way to overcome this, or a better way to do it? The reason I'm using COPY
>> (well, actually COPYTO, a one-line COPY frontend) because I can build the
>> COPY statements in a list driven JQL report.
>>
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