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General HydroStatics
Ship Stability Software |
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Command of the Week
(New or interesting aspects of GHS that you may not know about) |
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MOO-VE and RE-MOO-VE
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When a farmer wants to move a cow to a new pasture, he might shout, "MOO-VE!!" Why then does a naval architect wanting to move a file to a new folder use RENAME?
Well, simple really... GHS doesn't have a command named MOVE, but does have RENAME (see COW069), which relocates a file to a new location when the destination path differs from the source path. For example, to move COW.MOO from the current directory to the ^-prefixed library path: |
| RENAME cow.moo ^cow.moo |
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There is another way to moo-ve files with GHS... you can COPY the file to a new location and then re-moo-ve the original using the ERASE command: |
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COPY cow.moo ^coo.moo ERASE cow.moo |
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By default ERASE safely removes files into the Recycle Bin. But in a case like this where a copy has just been made, you might want to remove the original completely using the ERASE /NORECYCLE parameter: |
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COPY cow.moo ^cow.moo ERASE cow.moo /NORECYCLE |
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