Things you can't easily do on Unix. Copy files from machine A to B, from C.

On machine C

(copyf "A:AMS;*.*#*" "B:AMS;")

#LispMachine revolution is nigh.

@volkris Nooop.... This note the glob. scp takes one file. rsync you say? That will fail if you don't have rsync on the remote...

Copying files on the Lisp Machines used the same function, no matter if it was remote, or not. No matter if you copied recursively, or not. It is all COPYF (or the long form, COPY-FILES)

@volkris On Unix, the user has to figure that out (oh .. you gotta use scp, why not rcp? cp? rsync? ftp? ....)

On Lisp Machines .. it figures it out based on the type of machine you are talking to. You could have a host that talks FTP or even ... HTTP! and COPYF would just do the right thing.

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