Copy All Files In a Group to a Destination with Fn Ft Unchanged on VMESA

This example illustrates copying all files in a group to a destination with Fn Ft unchanged. Suppose the following files were on a disk:

ABC ASSEMBLE
AAA ASSEMBLE
ABCD ASSEMBLE
SOURCE1 FILE
SOURCE2 FILE

Also, assume the following:

FROM GROUP=’* *’
TO   GROUP=’%1% %2%’

The group name specified, * * has two special pattern-matching characters (two asterisks), so the destination pattern supplied has two replacement symbols (%1% and %2%). Replacement symbol %1% is replaced by the characters that correspond to the first asterisk in all names determined to be in the group. Replacement symbol %2% is replaced by the characters that correspond to the second asterisk in all names determined to be in the group.

The following transfers occur:

FROM                TO
ABC ASSEMBLE  ----> ABC     ASSEMBLE
AAA ASSEMBLE  ----> AAA     ASSEMBLE
ABCD ASSEMBLE ----> ABCD    ASSEMBLE
SOURCE1 FILE  ----> SOURCE1 FILE
SOURCE2 FILE  ----> SOURCE2 FILE

A more efficient way to copy all the files from one minidisk to another is to specify the FROM group as * and the TO group as %1%.