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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: surprising xcopy behavior
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:50:48 +0200
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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.

You put "C:" in the command line, so XCOPY uses the CWD from harddisk C,
which at the time would be the root dir.
Then he copied the files from "dirname" to the CWD in C (again the root
dir) and then copy the dir structure from "dirname".
Meaning only sub-dirs in "dirname".
This seems like normal behaviour to me.

	Yeep