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Subject: Re: confirm before over-write
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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:58:09 +0200
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From: Lindner-Thalmaessing AT t-online DOT de
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Hello DOS community,

I am a blind DOS user still working with the ancient MS-DOS 4.22, German
version. (Reason: I was 58 when I got blind, use speech output; Jaws for
Windows is too expensive for me).

Reading all the mail traffic to above subject, I wonder if perhaps the
German version 4.22 really could be different from the English vs,
especially concerning COPY, MOVE or XCOPY commands???

Q 1: Is there no environment variable named COPYCMD in other 4.22-vs?

Q 2: How differs the command line syntax of XCOPY in other than German vs?

Here is the (translated) command line syntax of the German vs of 4.22:

XCOPY <source> <target> [/Y|/-Y] [/A|/M] [/D:Date] [/P] [/S] [/E] [/V] [/W]

To enable or disable overwriting, the params /Y or /-Y are used,
where /-Y in case of identical filenames leads to the system's question
"... overwrite ...?", otherwise always is overwritten.

Regards,

Peter Lindner

Peter Lindner, Aue Nr. 37, D-91177 Thalmaessing, Tel. +49-9173-1844
E-Mail: PLind AT Web DOT DE or Lindner-Thalmaessing AT T-Online DOT DE