Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpmcaa!marco 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 References: <5224@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Organization: HP McMinville Division Lines: 27 >/ 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 ---------- 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