how to copy files

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto jeanne at runrev.com
Fri Jan 18 01:12:34 EST 2002


At 12:17 PM -0800 1/17/2002, Niklas "Almesj–" wrote:
>So when I try to do a shell command (to copy a file) it
>chokes with the following:
>
> ï There was an Execution Error at 9:11:19 PM
>Error description:  Handler: can't find handler
>Object: button id 1003 of card id 1002 of stack
>"C:/WINDOWS/Skrivbord/test/test.rev"
>--------------------
>shell(datext)

Remember, shell is a function, not a command. You need to have a command in
the statement in order to make it a legal statement. So something like this
will work:

  get shell(datext)

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