Hi,

The proper cpin command for your example below would be:

cpin Operations:myfile /usr/tschulze/myfile

The minishell is going to think that "Unix\" is the filename of the
destination file.  

Mark

On 21 Feb 1997, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:

> Thanks to Bill Studenmund, Henry B. Hotz and Dan Bell for your 
> suggestions on removing this file.  I cd'd to /, gave the command "rm 
> Unix\\", and the file was gone.
> 
> That leaves me with a question on the format of the cpin (and by 
> extension, cpout) commands in the Minishell.  Bill said I could use 
> quotes, but I am not sure where he meant.  If I want to copy a file 
> (myfile) into my home directory /usr/tschulze from my Mac hard drive 
> (Operations), is the proper command, "cpin Operations:myfile 
> /usr/tschulze/myfile"?  I am figuring this is the correct format, because 
> in my erroneous cpin command I started the ufs_filepath with "Unix\" and 
> ended up with a file in my root directory "/" named "Unix\", the cpin 
> command understanding the space between the \ and Box as the end of the 
> filename. Right?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sean.
> 
> 
>                  T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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