🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:55:22 GMT, 100046.1274@compuserve.com (Thorsten
Matzner) wrote:

:->"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\*.*

An additional limitation when doing this from a DOS boot disk is you
cannot use long filenames.
The above folder name elsewhere would be too long if this were the
actual name of a folder.
You have to use the DOS 8.3 filenames that you see on general tab of a
file's properties next to MS-DOS name.

I hope that this helps. 8-).

Windows 98 help at
http://www.ac.net/~lilesj