On 23 Feb 99, at 8:13, Dave Perry wrote:

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

  NO.

  It means that xcopy under "a true DOS environment" trashed long
filenames.


David G

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