Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:35:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
Sender: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: surprising xcopy behavior
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I was interested in having opendos do an xcopy from
a floppy to a hard drive and have opendos recreate a
directory structure on the hard drive which already
exists on the floppy.
I tried:
xcopy /d /s a:\dirname\*.* c: <cr>
and what happened was opendos started dumping files from under
dirname on a: into the root directory on c:.  Fortunately nothing irrepairable for
myself but this would be a nasty surprise for a new
computer user if what I typed was correct for that purpose.
The xcopy documentation in xcopy help documentation doesn't make much more clear
than that.
What should have happened at first was c:\dirname should have been created and
then the files in that file tree should have copied over.

jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>