Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:53:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: surprising xcopy behavior
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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Takashi Toyooka wrote:
> At 19:50 1997/04/22 +0200, yeep wrote:

> 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).

Not really, considering that even an empty dir occupies space on a drive,
and, get this, if at one time there was very many files in there, causing
it to span several clusters, they're all still occupied, which, IMHO, is
very silly!

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