RED (Redirect) John Dickinson Command PC Magazine Vol 4, No 4 Copyright 1985 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company _______________________________________________________ Purpose: Transfers one (or more) file(s) from one subdirectory to another without requiring the use of COPY and ERASE. Format: RED [d:][path]filename[.ext] [d:][path] Remarks: Like the DOS COPY command, RED.COM supports the use of the global characters ? and * in specifying the desired source files. Unlike COPY, however, RED.COM does not permit renaming a file during the transfer process. (This is why it is unnecessary to supply a target filename.) Furthermore, RED requires that the source and target drives be the same. You cannot, therefore, remove a set of files from drive C: by trying to REDirect them to drive A:. Example: Before submitting your income tax you calculated it under several different methods, contained in files named ROUGH1.DAT through ROUGH6.WKS. These are all in the subdirectory \IRS on drive C:, and you want to move them all to a sub-subdirectory (which you have created) called \1985TAX\DRAFTS. From the C> prompt enter \IRS\ROUGH?.* \1985TAX\DRAFTS and all six files will be moved out of \IRS and into \1985\DRAFTS. Note: 1. Requires DOS 2.0 or later.