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Jim, does that mean that XCOPY, under the Dos environment, will make a
perfect copy of the Hard drive?

At 08:42 22/02/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>

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