OK, I'll have to play with File::Find and see if it will take UNC arguments. Also, if File::Find will, then would it be logical to assume File::Copy would, too? And doesn't File::Copy have a recursive add-on?

I happen to be home right now and I got to poking around on my laptop, and whatddya know, someone has written a perl script that maps drives when you're away from the office. Seems fairly simple in that it uses 'net use.' So I may look into that as well.

Thanks again,

J

UPDATE: Also File::Repl looks interesting and appears to work with UNCs.

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I think File::Copy handles UNC paths. (In the cygwin perl (the one I use) I believe that filename resolution is ultimately passed on to the OS, so it has access to all the files the OS does.)

I don't know about the recursive add-on, but I figure while you're doing your File::Find, your original routine has access to the full path of the filename. Given that, you could copy it over to the destination device.

--roboticus

Save some steps:
Once the DOS window has focus, there's no need to select edit. Just use the mouse to highlight the text to copy to the clipboard and hit enter when the highlighting is complete. NB: you can take a set of columns, but to capture continuous text, you'll need to be careful to highlight the full (virutal) width of the DOS screen... and when chars/line > 256, you'll have to replace the lineendings in the copy you "paste with ^V in *real* applications...."

That begs another question -- nay, "a mystery" to me: why did M$ bother with the "mark" option at all?

What version of Windows are you using? I'm on Windows XP Professional 2002, and I can't select text with the mouse until I do the Edit->Mark. Ah, well, chalk it up to another inconsistency between versions of Windows.

(And to think that people complain about minor variations of various versions of *nix...)

--roboticus

Thats because you have not enabled "quick edit mode".

Click the system menu on a console window(top left), then Properties->Options->QuickEditMode. Then you'll be able to drag mark using the left button, copy with the right (when marked), and paste with the right button (when there is something in the paste buffer).

When you click OK, you'll be offered the choice to enable it for just this window, or for all console windows.

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