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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: Re: batch file problems
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:25:50 +0200
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Donald wrote:
>>      Internal COMMAND.COM commands doesn't change errorlevel. :-(
>
>   Hmmm, that sounds like a strange thing to do.

Copy works this way in MS-DOS before version 6 as well, I'm not entirely
sure about it being version 6 but it was like that in earlier versions anyway.

>> But in this case solution exist:
>>
>>         if not exist %1 goto nofile
>>         copy %1
>
>   Okay, I'll try it that way. Not sure why I didn't think of that myself.
>Thanks.

Yes, what Arkady suggest should work without problem. IIRC one interesting
thing about copy in MS-DOS (I don't know if DR-DOS is the same) is that
empty files aren't copied.
//Bernie