Here's another interesting little tidbit. If you use XCOPY from a true
DOS environment, you get 8.3 file names. If you use XCOPY from within a
DOS WINDOW, you get the full filenames.
This applies to _all_ flavors of Windows 9x.
Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Delzer <[log in to unmask]>
>Peter Shkabara wrote:
>>
>> At one time I thought I discovered XCOPY32 to perform long filename
copies.
>This information is obsolete under Win98. I don't have later versions of
>Win95 available, so I can't speak for those versions, but under Win98
>there are now three (3) files that make up the "xcopy suite" -
>xcopy.exe, xcopy32.exe, and xcopy.mod. If you run a file comparison tool
>against the two *.exe files, you'll see that they are now exactly alike.
>
>Jeff Delzer
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