Re: windows3.1 file manager

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From: GAAslin
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 00:00

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tallen@hit.net (Terry Allen) wrote:

>In article <3620e34c.2680323@news.kdsi.net>, speters@kdsi.net says...
>>
>>A DOS sweep utility will do it. They execute the same 
>>command for each directory. EG:
>> sweep    copy   \source.txt    tgtfile 
>>The one I use lets you just work over a branch of the 
>>directory tree (sweep164 by Roger Briggs).
>>
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 22:03:53 +0100, "paul crookes"
>><paul.crookes@diamond.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>can you copy 1 file to more than one dir at a time i have one file 
>and 600
>>>dir to copy it to any help
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>bye bye
>>>paul
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>no, I dont think so..............but why would you want to. Put the 
>file in a directory thats in your path statement, and anything that 
>uses a standard dos call for it should be able to find it...........why 
>have 600 copies of the same file when you can have only one. Saves on 
>disk space. And you have 600 subdirectories on your hard drive? Thats 
>some drive, man!
>
>hope I helped
>l8r
>


You can also write a batch file !
Create a simple dos TXT file,
write one command per line,
save has job.bat

execute job.bat ( in dos just write JOB )

If you dont make error, all you want is execute !

Good luck !


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GAAslin

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From: gaaslin@oricom.ca (GAAslin)
Subject: Re: windows3.1 file manager
Date: 1998/10/24
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