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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:24:22 -0400
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: Takashi Toyooka <ttoyooka AT verisim DOT com>
Subject: Re: surprising xcopy behavior
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At 19:50 1997/04/22 +0200, yeep wrote:
>> 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>
>
>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.

I'm not sure it's the behaviour of "C:" defaulting to the CWD, so
much as the "\*.*" on the parameter before it.

I'm not certain, but try this:

xcopy /d /s a:\dirname c:\

This may not work.  I don't usually use xcopy.  If you have the
djgpp fileutils, you can do:

cp -R a:/dirname c:/

This will do what you want.

BTW, if the OpenDOS xcopy is like the MS-DOS one, then you probab-
ly want /e instead of /s.  That will also copy empty directories,
whereas /s will ignore them (silly behaviour, IMO).

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