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Re: Problem copying .ini files in ms-dos! Please help.

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From: Provider
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:00
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Try running the bat file from the Hard disk. Copy the batch file to the hard
disk then invoke that batch file.

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orange <s0800043@singnet.com.sg> wrote in message
news:7pd6he$md0$1@newton.pacific.net.sg...
> 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/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Provider" <humae@earth.solar.system>
Subject: Re: Problem copying .ini files in ms-dos! Please help.
Date: 1999/08/18
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