Thank you Jeff, this is useful information. It seems hard to keep up with
the changes in Win9x. For the record, I did use XCOPY32 to make disk images.
To do this, I created a bootable Win95 diskette - no GUI, just DOS 7. Then
XCOPY32 was able to copy all the long file names and directory structures.
This was under Windows 95 original build - no SP. However, based on the
information in the article I referenced, my way of using it was not the
intended method.

|| Peter Shkabara
|| Computer Science Instructor
|| Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR
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-----Original Message-----
> At one time I thought I discovered XCOPY32 to perform long filename
copies.
> As it turns out, xcopy32 should never be used by itself. XCOPY will make
use
> of XCOPY32 if the environment supports the extra features that are
possible.

This information is obsolete under Win98.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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