Re: copy command and COPYCMD

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Michael Bednarek

I have a client using windows 2000 and they want to copy
files using dos mode(go figure. So she drops to the
command prompt and when she copies files to a floppy, it
does not prompt for overwrites. I have researched that
and found that the COPYCMD can be set to COPYCMD=COPY /-Y
and this should make her happy. But I cannot get it to
work.
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I don't use Microsoft's free sample command line interpreter (CMD.EXE) a
lot myself, but reading the output of "COPY /?" suggests to me that the
environment variable COPYCMD should be set to "/-Y", not "COPY /-Y".
However, this seems to be the default behaviour anyway when COPY is
executed from the command line, so I'm a bit puzzled why CMD doesn't
prompt her.

Alternatively, you could try to press DOSKEY into your service.
 
Michael Bednarek wrote in
I have a client using windows 2000 and they want to copy
files using dos mode(go figure. So she drops to the
command prompt and when she copies files to a floppy, it
does not prompt for overwrites. I have researched that
and found that the COPYCMD can be set to COPYCMD=COPY /-Y
and this should make her happy. But I cannot get it to
work.
Click to expand...
[snip]

I don't use Microsoft's free sample command line interpreter
(CMD.EXE) a lot myself, but reading the output of "COPY /?"
suggests to me that the environment variable COPYCMD should be set
to "/-Y", not "COPY /-Y". However, this seems to be the default
behaviour anyway when COPY is executed from the command line, so
I'm a bit puzzled why CMD doesn't prompt her.
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Yes. correct. set COPYCMD=/Y or
set COPYCMD=/-Y
The data stored in the environment variable named COPYCMD
is the same as used one-off at the command line as a switch for the
COPY command. The OP would be ineffective if seting
COPYCMD=COPY /-Y
 
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