🚀 go-pugleaf

"orange" <s0800043@singnet.com.sg> wrote:

>        I have an .ini files that I would like to copy over to 100+ other
>computers.
>So i made a boot disk that would boot up and run autoexec.bat and then copy
>some other .dat files over and then the .ini files.
>
>        But there seems to be a problem that I can't get to copy the .ini
>file over, unless I have Windows started. i.e When i get into windows, and
>enter ms-dos prompt, only then will it allow me to copy ovre the .ini files
>using xcopy32.
>i copied the xcopy32 over to the floppy, used the entire same command that
>was used in windows 98 but it wouldn't work. the option of being able to
>copy hidden files seem to have dissapeared once i copied xcopy32 into the
>floppy.
>Any ideas of how this can be solved?

The parameters supported by XCOPY and XCOPY32 differ. Type 
XCOPY /?
at a DOS prompt to find out, what parameters are available. XCOPY is
used in the MS-DOS Mode and XCOPY32 is used while Windows is up and
running. 
If you can not do what you want with XCOPY, you may want to start
Windows and run the batch file from here. 

>        Just another question, let's say if i have a boot up disk with
>autoexec.bat that copies my .dat files over, and i've got another disk with
>some more .dat files to be copied over to the hard disk. When disk 1 is done
>with copying, what should i type inside the autoexec.bat to prompt me to
>insert the new disk and start to carry on to copy the remaining one or two
>.dat files?
>i.e Please insert disk 2... click any key to continue

If you only have two disks, duplicate the COPY command in the batch
file and separate both lines with a PAUSE command, f. e.:
XCOPY A:\*.DAT C:\ELSEWHERE\*.*
PAUSE Please insert disk #2.
XCOPY A:\*.DAT C:\ELSEWHERE\*.*

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