Write Entire Directory to DOS Diskette



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Write Entire Directory to DOS Diskette

To copy an entire directory from Unix to DOS, place the following few lines in a file (we call ours dos.dir). This file is a shell script that takes the output file names from the list command ls and uses them as file names for the doswrite command:


dosfiles=`ls` List files, set to variable dosfiles. for i in $dosfiles Go through list of names. do Repeat loop. doswrite -a $i $i Write 1 file onto floppy. done

To run this script, make the file executable (x) with the command chmod x dos.dir, and then issue the dos.dir command. If you want the file to go into an already existing DOS directory named pcfiles, change the doswrite line above to:

%doswrite -a $i /pcfiles/$i   	Write to DOS directory.   



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