Subj : Re: XCOPY or COPY
To   : aria1946
From : Charles Dye
Date : Mon Feb 11 2002 04:42 pm

From: Charles.Dye@f3.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Charles Dye)
Subject: Re: XCOPY or COPY

From: raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye)

aria1946@hotmail.com.spoo wrote:

>I want to copy an entire partition to another partition, overwriting
>anything that happens to be in the target partition.
>
>I created the copy on H: from E: (source drive) with a simple copy
>function. On subsequent copies I want to basically overwrite H: with
>the current contents of E:, preserving empty directories on E: in the
>process.
>
>Is there any particular advantage to using COPY or XCOPY?

Assuming you're using 4DOS, there's no really large advantage to either one
over the other.  4DOS's COPY command features more flexible file selection and
better handling of things like file descriptions, plus the options remain the
same whether you're running under Windows or not.  XCOPY gives you
compatibility with non-4DOS environments, and slightly faster throughput.  All
in all, I'd call it a wash.

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