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Date: | Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:33:35 +0800 |
From: | Erich Dollansky <oceanare AT pacific DOT net DOT sg> |
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Subject: | Re: copying a million tiny files? |
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Hi, Brian Dessent wrote: > >> Using xcopy, is kind of silly and wont get you compatiblity...... especially in scripts.... > > Portability to non-Windows systems is of course a problem but xcopy is > present on every install of Windows that has ever existed going back to > some very old version of MS-DOS so it is probably one of the most > portable commands in existance on this platform. > if I remember right, XCOPY is older than any networking stuff on this plattform. It should be there since the first hard disks have been there. Erich -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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