🚀 go-pugleaf

okay guys, i've tried the advice you guys gave, but there seems to be a
problem. okay, what I have now in my autoexec.bat is this:

@echo off
copy *.dat c:\progra~1\networ~1\mcafee~1 /y
echo Insert disk 2
Pause
autoexec.bat


the copying of the .dat files for disk 1 go smoothly, and it prompts me to
insert disk 2 and says 'Press any key to continue....'
So i insert my disk 2 and press the enter key and it just reads it for
awhile but there's no copying. (the autoexec.bat in disk 2 has only one
copyblahblah command.)

(in disk 2, i have only two files. one autoexec.bat and one scan.dat, i
renamed the autoexec.bat file in disk 2 to disk.bat, and changed the last
sentence (of autoexec.bat to disk.bat but it didn't work as well)

I tried this next,

@echo off
copy *.dat c:\progra~1\networ~1\mcafee~1 /y
echo Insert disk 2
Pause
copy *.dat c:\progra~1\networ~1\mcafee~1 /y

and it still didn't work. same problem as above.

I haven't got to try the .ini  advice you guys gave as this problem hasn't
been solved yet. Would appreciate it if you guys could give me some advice.

Cheers,
Eugene.


Bill Watt Sr. <bwatt@epix.net> wrote in message
news:37b9ee86.182111@news1.epix.net...
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:53:53 +0800, "orange"
> <s0800043@singnet.com.sg> wrote:
>
> :Hi there,
> :
> :        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?
>
> Xcopy is a shortcut to Xcopy32, either one will work. Neither one
> will copy hidden files in real dos, only in a Dos window.
> As Provider suggested use the Pause command to switch disks.
>
> Echo Insert disk 2
> Pause
>
> To use Xcopy32 from real dos to copy hidden files try this in your
> *.bat file.
>
> cd\windows
> attrib -r -s -h win.ini (repeat for each file)
>
> Then use Xcopy32
>
> At the end use:
>
> cd\windows
> attrib +r +s +h win.ini  (repeat for each file)
>
> Xcopy or Xcopy32 don't do long file names in real dos.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Watt Sr.  bwatt@epix.net     http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/
>
>
>