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98 MS-DOS User's Reference
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The /w switch causes xcopy to wait before it starts copying files.
Xcopy displays the following message:
Press any key when ready to start copying files*—'
You must press a key to continue, or press control-c to abort the ; •
xcopy command. \~J
Xcopy exit codes When correctly written programs exit back to ms-dos, they return
an exit code: 0 if no error occurred, or a value greater than zero , i
if there was a problem. This exit code, which you can test in ^—^
batch files, lets you "branch" to an error-handling routine in the
batch file.
If xcopy encounters an error, it returns one of the following exit ^-^
codes:
0 Copy without error \^J
1 No files found to copy
2 control-c entered by user to terminate xcopy
4 Initialization error ^—^
There is not enough memory — invalid drive or command
line syntax, file not found, or path not found.
5 Int 24 error occurred ^-^
The user aborted from INT24 error reading or writing
You can test for these codes by using the errorlevel condition of
the batch processing if command. t i
Examples:
Copying to a disk Because the diskcopy command copies disks track by track, it t j
with a different format requires your source and target disks to have the same format. ^~~/^
If you have a disk that contains files in subdirectories and you
want to copy it to a target disk that has a different format, you ,
must use the xcopy command. For example, the following exam- ^—'
pie copies all the files and subdirectories (including any empty
subdirectories) on the disk in drive A to the disk in drive B:
xcopy a: b: /s /e
The xcopy command may prompt you to specify whether the ii
target is a file or a directory. If you don't want to receive this
prompt, type the following command:
copy /b xcopy.exe mcopy.exe U
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