The :INSTALL command can be used to get a file onto all machines. Do :INSTALL dev:dir;fn1 fn2 . It will ask you for confirmation then :PROCEED itself so as not to tie up your terminal while it does it. It uses the same file name defaults as :PRINT, :COPY, etc. in DDT. If the filename contains < or >, INSTALL will preserve the version and will ask before clobbering an existing file of the same name. If there is no < or >, it assumes that it is all right to clobber an existing file of the same name. INSTALL preserves the creation date. If you don't want to install the file on every machine, you can follow the filename spec with an altmode and the names of the machines you do want to install on.