Subj : Copy to file or directory?      Help?     Calling MS-Dos?
To   : All
From : meirman
Date : Fri Feb 01 2002 04:54 am

From: meirman <meirman@invalid.com>

I hope you don't mind three questions in one post.


In the statement

 xcopy c:\windows\file.dat d:\dir\file.dat

the computer wants to know if my destination was a file or a directory.  IIRC, 
Dos assumes I mean a file, and this is a feature of 4DOS.

Usually I just tell it, but this time it was part of a .bat file.  Is there a 
paramenter or a way to write the xcopy statement to tell it which it is in 
advance.

  (I got around it with an echo statement, but it seems it should be
easier than that.)
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In Dos6/4dos, when I type Help and I get the 4dos Help, I can click on 
"External (dos) Help" or F4 and I get dos6 help.

But in dos7(win98), I get 'not found' or something.  It has to do with setting 
doshelp in the autoexec.bat, but I don't know what to set it to.  Can anyone 
help me.
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I've noticed that one can start 4dos.com from dos7 or dos6, and one can start 
command.com for dos7 when in 4dos.  But I don't think I can start command.com 
(dos6) from 4dos (even when my dos directory in the path is dos6).  Is that the 
way it is supposed to be?


TIA

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