Subj : Re: Copy to file or directory?      Help?     Calling MS-Dos?
To   : meirman
From : Outsider
Date : Fri Feb 01 2002 07:19 pm

From: Outsider@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Outsider)
Subject: Re: Copy to file or directory?      Help?     Calling MS-Dos?

From: Outsider <nonvalid_email@yahoo.com>

meirman wrote:
>
> 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.)

....snipped

These are not specific to 4DOS, but you might try them. I don't know if any
MSDOS stuff works in 4DOS as I have not been able to gather any worthwhile
information from this group about 4DOS.


ECHO F |XCOPY.exe file1 file2

or

XCOPY.exe c:\example1.fil w:\temp\*.*

or

XCOPY.exe c:\example1.fil w:\temp\*example1.fil


You'll have to experiment a little. If this is not specifically for 4DOS, it
would be much better to ask in news:alt.msdos.batch

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