Subj : Re: XCOPY or COPY
To   : Outsider
From : Steve
Date : Mon Feb 11 2002 10:21 pm

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

From: "E. S. (Steve) Fabian" <ESFabian@BellAtlantic.net>

Outsider wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> Xcopy copies directories and files, copy is only for files.

1) No form of *copy will delete empty directories already in the target
hierarchy, but not all will copy empty directories from the source to the
target.

2) 4DOS' copy/s will copy empty subdirectories, just like xcopy/s/e.

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