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In mail (today) you write:

> Does anyone know the DOS command for copying entire directories with their
> subdirectories from a hard drive to another drive?

Depends on the version of DOS *and* what command interpreter you are
using. 

With the 4dos interpreter:

	copy  C:\dir1\dir2 d:\dir\3 /s

or replace "copy" with "move" if you want to move them.

Otherwise, you need to use Xcopy. Paramaters vary a bit with OS
version. One thing to check is to make sure that either the destination
directory exists (the subdirectories will be created ok) or use the
xcopy option that forces creation of the directory. Otherwise you can
get everything copied to a single file. <ick!>

-- 
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow{G})
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