Re: [ROOT] Interface of TSystem

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 16:15:28 MET


Hi Andreas,

  TSystem::CopyFile() is now available and provides a machine
independent way of copying files. Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers, Fons.


On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 16:00, Andreas Zoglauer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is only a question about the design of the TSystem class:
> 
> TSystem contains methods to create directories, rename files etc.
> Why does it not contain a function for copying files?
> I know I can write some simple function by hand or do this with 
> gSystem->Exec("cp  A B"); but this is not OS independent.
> 
> I am not sure what the intention was when designing the class TSystem, 
> but in my opinion a copy function is missing.
> 
> Andreas
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