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. >> >> -- >> -- >> IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. >> >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "jBASE" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> -- >> IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. >> >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "jBASE" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jBASE" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jBASE" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. 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