X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: shadow AT shadowgard DOT com To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:27:06 -0700 Subject: Re: confirm before over-write Message-ID: <3F71E1FA.24000.A11D25E@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 23 Sep 2003 at 18:46, DONALD PEDDER wrote: > As much as I hate to admit it, MS-DOS has one advantage over DR-DOS - > confirm before over-write (for example, with xcopy). I looked into it last > night, and can't find a way to turn it on. IS there a way to turn it on? > Even the help says that no-confirm is the default, so it looks to me like > it's part of the kernel. I really don't like that I have to check whether > I already have a filename of a certain name before using the command. I > should be able to just type it in and have the system tell me I already > have that filename in existence. What command do you want the confirm *with*? Replace? Copy? Xcopy? Replace and xcopy are programs that come with the OS. Copy is internal. Me, I use 4dos for a command processor instead of command.com, so I can just set options by way of an alias. -- Leonard Erickson (aka shadow) shadow at krypton dot rain dot com