Help copying files

[zer0_flaw]

Hrmmm... these will be 3 newbie question. I have no clue though. I'm used to programming in perl and am a newbie to visual basic. Anyway, here I go. 1) What is the command to copy files? 2) How do I rename a file? 3) Can I make *nix apps using VB? There we go, that's it. Thanks -=)

[Megatron]

1) Use Filecopy

FileCopy "MyFile", "MyNewFile"

2) Use Name

Name "MyFile" As "MyOtherFile"

3) What do you mean by *nix?

[alex_read]

• Filecopy "C:\Folder1\File.exe", "C:\Folder2\File.exe"
  (Syntax - Filecopy File&Path FROM , File&Path TO)
  
• Name "C:\Folder1\File.exe", "C:\Folder1\File2.doc"
  (Syntax - NAME File&Path OLDNAME, File&Path NEWNAME)
  
• Haven't a clue, what's a *nix app ?

Megatron - pplleeaassseeee stop following me

[zer0_flaw]

A *nix application is for another operating system. *nix is a way of saying unix, linux, and others like them all in one word ;] It's used quite often in the non-windows world.

[egiggey]

vb is soley a windows dev env as far as I know

[jim mcnamara]

Arc-Info v8.0 (from ESRI) is a *nix app that uses VBA
and runs on several flavors of unix and Windows.

Embedded VBA or vbscript is about the only place you can find it outside of Windows.

[egiggey]

I stand corected

[alex_read]

Embedded VBA or vbscript is about the only place you can find it outside of Windows.

There is a dos version of vb (VBDOS 1.0) I think it's called. Also, you can get an emulator to run your app on Linux although this one I've not seen.