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From: bosch@cs.utwente.nl (J. Christian A. Peper)
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Subject: Re: xcopy /s fails
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Date: 22 Nov 90 15:05:43 GMT
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TOMIII@MTUS5.BITNET (Thomas Dwyer III) writes:
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>DIR2 and DIR3 have their R/O bits set.  Why does XCOPY fail to recurse with
>the command line "XCOPY \DIR1 \DIR4 /S" ?
>

When I want to xcopy a dir like that I never specify the internal dirs, I
only specify the root of however many dirs are underneath it.
So e.g.:

|
temp ----- tmp1
 |	    |
 | 	    dir1
 | 	    |
 | 	    dir2
 |
 --------- tmp2
 etc.etc

 I only tell xcopy about the \temp dir. That usually works, and I've moved
 VERY big dirs this way....ca. 10 subdirs etc...!

 Good luck,

 Chris.
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