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Yes and No -- XCOPY32.EXE is specifically designed to work with Win95 Long
File Names -- your comments would be accurate for its predecessors--
XCOPY.EXE and COPY.EXE
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At 01:25 AM 5/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Simple yes recommended NO!!!
>
>Using DOS to copy windows files is a potential disaster. DOS programs do not
>know about long file names. Windows and windows applications use LFNs
>everywhere including directories and subdirectories. There are utilities
>from MS that will convert from LFN to 8.3 and 8.3 to LFN but they have to be
>used with extreme care and you may not end up the same names that you
>started with (How nice for your applications that have stored the old
>names). MS recommends that once you convert to Windows forget DOS and use
>windows based products to copy/move/backup files.
>
>For those who have been getting away with ignoring this recommendation from
>MS, maybe TS version 5 will have some surprises for them.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Augustine <RonAug@xxxxxxxx>
>To: Jim Hill <ender5@xxxxxxxxxx>; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
><omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 12:25 AM
>Subject: Re: Do you use PQ Drive Image??
>
>
>>
>>One very simple way to copy from one drive to another in Win-95 is to use a
>>DOS statement like the following.
>>
>>C:\windows\command\xcopy32.exe c:\omega\*.* d:\omega\ /m /s /e
>>
>>It will copy only files that have changed since it was last executed. It
>>will also copy to a Network drive, assuming the drive mapped.
>>
>>You can set it up as a Win-95 Shortcut Icon. If you want to automate it,
>>you can use a scheduler, such as ClockMan.
>>
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