From:	Jude Dashiell <dashiell AT clark DOT net>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 1997 06:12:59 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id:	<199710301112.GAA23439@clark.net>

~s xcopy opendos 7.02
I found that the xcopy.exe command in opendos 7.02
is completely unreliable.
I used the command:
xcopy c:\*.* e: /s /a /e
to copy all files in all subdirectories from the hard drive.
xcopy failed to do this.  It could be the /a switch restricted
opendos to copying only those files which had been
modified.  However there were not enough of them to have used 12
20 meg bernoulli cartridges from a 212 mb hard drive.
What I found when checking cartridges was 12 exact copies of one cartridge.
I'm not even going to try the backup utility, I'm afraid what will happen
if restore screws up.  I'm doing all of this in preparation for
converting the main hard drive over to linux and was expecting to
be able to do that tonight.
Looks like that's delayed until some time later.
I've got sighted help for doing this conversion since during it the
speech synthesizer is going to be quiet.
This is not too good of an explanation to be giving out about
opendos to someone who has never used the product.
It will not inspire confidence.

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