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MS-DOS User's Reference
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
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You must press a key to continue, or press
CONTROL·C
to abort the [
xcopy command.
Xcopy exit codes
Copying to a disk
with a different format
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
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:
o
1
2
4
5
Copy without error
No files found to copy
CONTROL-C
entered by user to terminate xcopy
Initialization error
There is not enough memory - invalid drive or command
line syntax, file not found, or path not found.
Int 24 error occurred
The user aborted from INT24 error reading or writing
disk.
You can test for these codes by using the error/evel condition of
the batch processing if command.
Examples:
Because the diskcopy command copies disks track by track, it
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-
ple 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:
Is Ie
The xcopy command may prompt you to specify whether the
target is a file or a directory.
If
you don't want to receive this
prompt, type the following command:
copy
Ib
xcopy.exe mcopy.exe
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