From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 10:32:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA12354 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:32:47 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA12348 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:32:45 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA25691 ; Mon, 17 Jul 95 13:32:31 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sXtmd-0004pHC; Mon, 17 Jul 95 13:16 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: Still can't install from DOS To: kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Kristyn Fayette) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 13:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199507171623.MAA08795@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Kristyn Fayette" at Jul 17, 95 12:23:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 817 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kristyn Fayette wrote: > Well, that xcopy command puts everying into the same directory. It does > not create a \bin directory. The correct command should be: > > c:\> xcopy e:\dists\bin c:\freebsd\bin OUCH! Sorry about that. Shows what I know about DOS commands. Doesn't DOS stand for Doom Operating System? :) > Enter 'd' and c:\freebsd\bin will be created and filled with the files from > e:\dists\bin. The '/s' parameter isn't needed unless there are subdirectories > off of e:\dists\bin. i.e., if e:\freebsd\bin\patch\ existed, you'd need the > '/s' parameter. So, you *did* get it installed after all? -- Jan Isley Heroes have the shelf life of cottage cheese, jan@bagend.atl.ga.us and public memory is shorter than Dudley Moore. -- Rheta Grimsley Johnson