Re: overcoming the MSDOS errorlevel problem

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From: Ian Staples
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 00:00

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John Savage <koala@sydney.dialix.com.au> writes:

>Amongst the myriad shortcomings of MSDOS we must include ... :

>  *  COPY does not copy a file of length 0

Oh, I dunno.  I actually have an application dependent on this
behaviour (and I use XCOPY for all routine copying anyway  :)

Cheers,  Ian S.

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From: staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: Re: overcoming the MSDOS errorlevel problem
Date: 1995/12/19
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