lcs@... wrote:

> %
>
> Hi again Alain,
>
>  > Perhaps we should not consider this behaviour as a
>  > bug but rather like a limitation in the OPEN
>  > statement.
>
> Which would be a documentation omission.
>
> I hope you will test the old "CopyFiles.Bas" a demo
> from earlier FB distributions that I am sending
> privately and posting temporarily in
>
>  ftp://topo.math.u-psud.fr/pub/lcs/fb/
>
> As it states, it is a proof-of-principle demo
> and not bulletproof code.
>
> Does it fail where the FB^3 demo fails?
>
> Cheers
>
> Larry
>
> PS.  What about copying between "virtual" volumes
> created by Apple's own std "Disk Copy".
>

Hi Larry,

I should probably get a good rest...
Not only the two demos I have uploaded from your site work fine here, but the
worst of all is that I have already adapted this code for FB^3, (I did the
work last December). My intent was to give it to Staz for inclusion on the CD,
but he said to me at that time that they've already done the work for the
Release 4, and I forgot about it (see path: Release 4
Examples:Files/Volumes:File Handling:Copy Files.bas). I've just retrieved my
own code and tried it. It works too!!!
So, the bug that originated the thread was mine, I have not yet found where it
was in the code I sent to the list but why did I need to reinvent the wheel,
after all?
It is possible also that the problem I had was related to the use of the
temporary system folder, or perhaps I have left open the resource fork of the
source file.

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Cheers

Alain

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