Xcopy behavior questions

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In said:
As you are really stupid.

Click Start, Click Help & Support, type "xcopy" in the search box,
click the green arrow next to it. Find XCopy in the list and
scroll to the bottom of the page.
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So either the documentation is wrong or xcopy is broken. In actual
use, I'll go with the observed behavior any day. A long time ago we
could have penciled in a note in the 3-ring bound manual...
 
And you are trying to make an enemy, why?

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Mark V said:
In microsoft.public.win2000.cmdprompt.admin Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]
wrote:
Cause I'm not a wanker like you, dickwad.


==> I held off on a suggestion I was considering in my last reply
out of politeness. In response to the above, here it is:

===> The rest of us have had no trouble following the
conversation, regardless of any snippage, even those of us for
whom English is not our first language. Try reading for content.
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I'm certainly having no problem following the conversation, only the
logic of one of the posters. :-)
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Some of us only hold 24 hours of messages. I've been here far longer than
you

===> Where is "here" in this context? If geographical, I don't know where
you are and there is a good chance I have never been there. If on earth and
dealing with other humans, well, we would have to share our ages, then
wouldn't we? If you mean in newsgroups in general, I'm not sure how you
would figure that one out. If you mean *this* newsgroup, the oldest post
from "David Candy" I can find in the google
archives(http://tinyurl.com/2ysoe) is dated Feb 6 2003. The earliest from me
(http://tinyurl.com/2sabz) is Dec 3, 2001.

===> In fact, regardless of what you actually meant by that remark, it is
essentially meaningless. One's value to a newsgroup is based on the content
of one's posts, not how long they have been here in any sense of the phrase.
BTW, I find it interesting that your first post noted above contained the
following sentence: "They might know batch language, but clear communication
and web design they don't". I'd recommend you work on your "clear
communication".
and I'll still be here when you've gone.
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===> It's a free newsgroup - stay as long as you want.

So I'll make it simple enough for a moron (the M from MVP?). F*ck with me
and you'll leave sooner rather than later.

===> In the literal sense, I would leave well *before* doing anything like
what you suggest. In the figurative sense, if you think that that is what I
have been doing with you, then you are quite mistaken. If I have offended
you in some way, then I apologize. As offensive as your impolite posts may
be, they are no more offensive to me than they are to the large number of
polite people who post here.

===> But I fail to see what you think you might do that would make me leave
sooner than later. Do you think what you say bothers me in some way?


/Al
 
David Candy said:
Some of us only hold 24 hours of messages. I've been here far longer
than you and I'll still be here when you've gone.
So I'll make it simple enough for a moron (the M from MVP?). F*ck with
me and you'll leave sooner rather than later.
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Thanks David for the opportunity to assemble some links on netiquette.

If you want to be taken seriously by anyone here, I suggest you read
some of the material and follow the hints given there.

http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/book/index.html
http://www.onlinenetiquette.com/
http://www.disney.com/cybernetiquette/
http://www.goggle.com/search?q=netiquette

If some of the impressive 36,000 postings from author: David Candy are
originating from you, I can't understand why you get in rage that fast.
May be cause you feel being wrong?
 
Of course they're from me. But I also have some posts under another name in the 95 or 98 groups. A few thousand. Plus 35000 sounds low.

www.mvps.org/serenitymacros

The up to date version is only on my computer as I've been to lazy to upload for a few years.

I'm merely acting in an appropiate way for NT groups. If you don't like it you shouldn't have started the norms of NT groups. I'm an angel in 9x groups and a devil in NT. And I don't ever forgive but often forget.

But if you want to f*ck with me you make your life unpleasant. So I suggest some humbleness from you soon. Remember we took your colonies in WW1 and defeated you on the western front (Us and the Kiwis, with the boks and the canuks were the shock troops. In WW2 we again were the first to defeat you (and the japs too). But more importantly I don't feel restrained talking about WW2 history. My name is David, that should tell you something about my family's religion in the 1600s..

Anyway back to the paper,
 
David Candy said:
Of course they're from me. But I also have some posts under another
name in the 95 or 98 groups. A few thousand. Plus 35000 sounds low.
www.mvps.org/serenitymacros

The up to date version is only on my computer as I've been to lazy to
upload for a few years.
I'm merely acting in an appropiate way for NT groups. If you don't
like it you shouldn't have started the norms of NT groups. I'm an
angel in 9x groups and a devil in NT. And I don't ever forgive but
often forget. But if you want to f*ck with me you make your life
unpleasant. So I suggest some humbleness from you soon. Remember we
took your colonies in WW1 and defeated you on the western front (Us
and the Kiwis, with the boks and the canuks were the shock troops. In
WW2 we again were the first to defeat you (and the japs too). But
more importantly I don't feel restrained talking about WW2 history.
My name is David, that should tell you something about my family's
religion in the 1600s.. Anyway back to the paper,
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Lol,
your behaviour reminds me at a mixture of King Kong knocking at his
chest, John Wayne, Don Johnson and not to forget Charlie Chaplin in
posing in a "Größenwahn" - role. Just to revert your picture a bit :-)

Forget about the netiquette links - seems wasted time to me.
 
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP] wrote:
:: :: XCopy is one of the rare ones in the XP help file. It's identical to
:: Dos.
::
::
:: ===> But, my friend, if it is identical, then why does it behave
:: differently? Could it be because it is not identical? You do the
:: math.
::
:: ===> On my XP box, the help info about that actual native XP xcopy
:: command displayed by the "XCOPY /?" command says nothing about exit
:: codes. When I make no assumptions as to what exit codes it might
:: produce, my experience is more consistent with what happens than
:: yours. Now, I may not be "morally right" in that one could argue
:: that it would be nice to have meaningful exit codes to deal with.
:: But given that it apparently does not do the "logical thing" (hey,
:: that's no novelty here), continuing to expect it will only give you
:: frustration.
::
::
:: /Al
FWIW, on my XP box I got my information about the return codes
for Xcopy from its entry in Help and Support. The return code of
1 is referred to there.

Steve
 
Stephen Quist said:
Al Dunbar [MS-MVP] wrote:
:: :: XCopy is one of the rare ones in the XP help file. It's identical to
:: Dos.
::
::
:: ===> But, my friend, if it is identical, then why does it behave
:: differently? Could it be because it is not identical? You do the
:: math.
::
:: ===> On my XP box, the help info about that actual native XP xcopy
:: command displayed by the "XCOPY /?" command says nothing about exit
:: codes. When I make no assumptions as to what exit codes it might
:: produce, my experience is more consistent with what happens than
:: yours. Now, I may not be "morally right" in that one could argue
:: that it would be nice to have meaningful exit codes to deal with.
:: But given that it apparently does not do the "logical thing" (hey,
:: that's no novelty here), continuing to expect it will only give you
:: frustration.
::
::
:: /Al
FWIW, on my XP box I got my information about the return codes
for Xcopy from its entry in Help and Support. The return code of
1 is referred to there.
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Yes, and thanks for being the second person to point this out to me ;-)

/Al
 
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