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Q: mass HD file transfer, old PC -> new PC?

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From: Dr M.H. Evans
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:00
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What would be the best way of copying all the 1676 files off my 
present 386sx computer's hard drive (80 MB, 3 partitions C:, D: & E:) 
to corresponding partitions on the (much bigger) hard drive of a new 
computer? 
 
I have Windows 3.1 Terminal (yuk) and Odyssey 1.5 running under DOS 
5.0 as my main comms software. I also have a null-modem serial cable. 
Odyssey includes Kermit and ZModem protocols, which will accept 
wildcards, but AFAIK will not upload through nested subdirectories, in 
the way XCOPY /s will when copying from disk to disk. So transferring 
with Odyssey would be tedious, though possible. 
 
Can one pipe XCOPY through the serial ports in some way? 
 
Or is there a public domain or shareware program that will copy all 
the files in the drive across, including those in nested 
subdirectories?  I don't feel inclined to spend much of my money on 
some commercial software (maybe one of the Nortons packages could do 
it?) for a job I may never have to do again. 
 
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From: mhe1000@cus.cam.ac.uk (Dr M.H. Evans)
Subject: Q: mass HD file transfer, old PC -> new PC?
Date: 1997/03/31
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