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From: marco@hpmcaa.HP.COM (Marco Dalla-Gasperina)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: I HATE DOS
Message-ID: <200006@hpmcaa.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 88 17:09:18 GMT
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>/ hpmcaa:comp.sys.ibm.pc / tony@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Tony Holden) / 5:03 pm Aug 16, 1988 /
>
>I need some help from you DOS guys.
>
>I have a diskette that has multiple directories and multiple files
>in each directory. What I want to do is make a directory on the hard
>disk for each directory on the floppy and then copy the files to that
>directory. Simple, I know. %!$@##
>
>Would someone make me a bat file to handle this (he says while on his
>knees)? No problem doing this on a Unix box, but DOS has me in knots.
>Why MS couldn't put a have-way useable shell is beyond me.
>
>Thanks
>
>Tony Holden
>tony@killer
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If you have DOS 3.2 or greater, you can use XCOPY which is like
a recursive copy command.

XCOPY a:\*.* c:\flopdir /S

If not you have to write a program to do it.

marco