put url tricks to copy files on windows

Wed Jun 21 10:17:30 EDT 2017

I don´t want to sound like a know-it-all, but revcopyfile also uses just the shell to copy the files:

replace "\" with "/" in pDestFile
replace "\" with "/" in pSrcFile

if there is a directory pDestFile then
set the itemDel to "/"
if char -1 of pDestFile is "/" then
delete char -1 of pDestFile
end if

local tDestFileName
put item -1 of pSrcFile into tDestFileName
set the itemDel to comma
put "/" & tDestFileName after pDestFile
end if
get shell ("copy" && revWindowsFromUnixPath(quote&pSrcFile&quote) && revWindowsFromUnixPath(quote&pDestFile&quote))

Matthias

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> Am 21.06.2017 um 15:57 schrieb Roger Eller via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
> 
> You could also try the revCopyFile and revCopyFolder commands.  I normally
> only use the URL syntax to save new data I've created in a variable to a
> file.  When copying existing files/folders I either use "get shell" to call
> native commands, or the built-in revCopyFile.
> 
> ~Roger
> 
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Let me be clearer.  I think the message could be better (or perhaps the
>> dictionary could list the error messages and explain them), because even
>> though we use the "open" command in LC to read from a file or create a
>> file, the lack of the need for a "create file" command in LCS doesn't
>> remove that thing in my intuition that says "well, the only file that needs
>> to be opened is the one that exists, already, so the problem must be on
>> that side".
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> to write to a file, even if it is copied, it has to be opened first.
>>> 
>>> Did you try to remove the 2 slashes in the to path also?
>>> 
>>> 
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>>>> Am 21.06.2017 um 14:31 schrieb Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>>:
>>>> 
>>>> also what is confusing is when I removed the // from the FROM file but
>>> left
>>>> it in for the TO file, I get the same error, "can't open file", which
>> to
>>> me
>>>> implies that the file that exists can't be read, not that the TO path
>> is
>>>> wrong.
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Roger Eller via use-livecode <
>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Without meaning to add more confusion, a Windows UNC path from a
>> server
>>> to
>>>>> a file does work with the form
>>>>> "binfile://servername/folder/folder/filename.txt <binfile://servername/folder/folder/filename.txt>
>>> <binfile://servername/folder/folder/filename.txt <binfile://servername/folder/folder/filename.txt>>", while local access
>> (or
>>>>> mapped drives) are like "binfile:C:/folder/folder/filename.txt".
>>>>> 
>>>>> ~Roger
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 21, 2017 2:07 AM, "Mark Waddingham via use-livecode" <
>>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> As others have pointed out, for binfile and file urls you shouldn't
>>>>>> include the standard '//' in front of the (absolute) path. These are
>>> not
>>>>>> parsed by the engine as standard urls - everything after the : is
>>> parsed
>>>>> as
>>>>>> the filename.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On an unrelated not you don't need to twiddle with the defaultfolder
>> as
>>>>>> files() and folders() now take an optional argument for the path :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 21 Jun 2017, at 03:37, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
>>>>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>>>> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 06/20/2017 07:19 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
>>>>>>>> I'm not on a mac a lot :-(
>>>>>>>> So is "binfile:" more universal, or do I have to check the
>> platform,
>>>>>>>> first?  What is the technique on linux?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As far as I can remember, the "//" has never been recommended or
>>>>>> approved for file or binfile. I'm surprised it gets parsed properly
>> for
>>>>>> OSX. You don't need or want it.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Mark Wieder
>>>>>>> ahsoftware at gmail.com <mailto:ahsoftware at gmail.com> <mailto:ahsoftware at gmail.com <mailto:ahsoftware at gmail.com>>
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