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FreeDOS XCOPY (rxcopy 1.4) released (Users)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 28.09.2007, 13:00

> Or just grab the updated binary w/ src here:
> rxcopy14.zip
> (52k)

BTW, Vista comes with both XCOPY (now "deprecated", 59 lines of help screen) and ROBOCOPY ("robust copy", 145-lines in /?). And there are various free (but closed src) DOS versions listed on Steve's Short.Stop page (ZCOPY uses XMS, XCLONE has LFN) plus XXCOPY (SFN only but 1325 lines of /HELP, more than any utility I've ever seen!).

To be honest, there's even a small, FOSS assembly one w/ LFN support in the works (not by me, though). Good news if you need that sort of thing!

Someone asked on one of the FD mailing lists about an LFN version of XCOPY, and Blair (who lacks frequent Net access) supposedly had updated the FD one, too. (I really need to ask him about it, but it's not crucial. I think modifying the Kitten support would only be necessary.)

Of course, IMO, you could always use DJGPP's CP.EXE .../*.exe /mydir or use DJGPP's FIND -name *.exe -dosexec copy /b {} ; or whatever. So, there are various options.

And I still don't like the fact that /L in FD's version makes but doesn't delete temp dirs (even in pretend mode??). Eric Auer suggests it may have to in order to not be buggy (I dunno but annoying nonetheless, I don't think other XCOPYs do that).

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Complete thread:

• FreeDOS XCOPY (rxcopy 1.3) dir attrib bug + patch - Rugxulo, 22.09.2007, 04:51 (Users)
  • FreeDOS XCOPY (rxcopy 1.3) dir attrib bug + patch - Rugxulo, 23.09.2007, 01:41
    • FreeDOS XCOPY (rxcopy 1.4) released - Rugxulo, 28.09.2007, 13:00
    • FreeDOS XCOPY (rxcopy 1.3) dir attrib bug + patch - Rugxulo, 26.04.2008, 21:21