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posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 30.08.2023, 09:47

> > Actually, I noticed that to non-interactively overwrite a file using
> COPY,
> > FreeCOM requires the COPY switch /Y, while EDR-DOS command defaults to
> > overwriting. I
> added
> > a /Y switch to EDR-DOS, which is a no-op by default. (It does
> > override /C if both are used.) This makes my modified
> make.bat
> > files fully work on both shells.
>
> %COPYCMD% was
> introduced in, what, MS-DOS 5? In .BAT files, COPY defaults to /Y,
> otherwise if interactive it asks you before overwriting.

Oh, right, FreeCOM does default to overwrite without asking in a batch file. I hadn't considered that it may differ.

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