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On 26 Feb 99, at 16:40, Eric Greenberg wrote:
> My thought is that since this swap file is constantly updated by
> Windows, it is probably impossible to copy because it is in use all
> the time. OTOH, just the fact that I was in Windows 98 at a DOS
> prompt when running xcopy32 means that I also had plenty of other
> files loaded at the same time. They all copied perfectly (without
> respect to location on the new drive, of course).
In general, a .exe or .dll need only be opened by the system in "read
only" mode -- it cannot be moved or defragmented, but it can be copied
just fine.
The swap file, though, must be open in read-write mode, and may get
updated in the middle of the copy operation -- that could be bad.
David G
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