One thing about xcopy32 is its inabilty to properly preserve long files names.
Careful!  xxcopy solves the problem.



>Plain Jane XCOPY32 does it, too, within a system. You must open a DOS
>window within Windows (not full screen or DOS mode). Then execute the
>following DOS command:
>
>  XCOPY  C:\*.*   X:\   /r/i/c/h/k/e/y
>
>where C: is the source and X: is the destination drive. Xcopy usually will
>not copy a file in use, particularly the swap file (but no matter: Windows
>will recreate it - so you might want to set the swap file as a temporary
>file on the C: drive; also, empty your recycle bin).  So, as a precaution,
>make sure you don't have any other programs running.
>
>HTH.
>
>Regards,
>
>John Chin
>

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