Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 170

Chapter 6 / Command Reference
• As files are replaced or added, REPLACE displays the file-
names on the screen; when the replace operation is complete,
the screen shows:
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flle(s) added/repaced
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No files added/replaced
• You cannot use the REPLACE command to update hidden
files or system files.
• If REPLACE encounters an error, it returns one of the follow-
ing errorlevel codes:
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Examples
Suppose your hard disk, Drive C, contains several files of elient
names and phone numbers. To replace these files with the latest
version of this file that exists on the disk in drive A, you would
type:
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Command line error
File Not Found
Path Not Found
Access Denied
Insufficient Memory
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Standard MS-DOS error
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This command replaces every file on Drive C that is named
Phones.eli (in different directories) with the file Phones.cli from
the root directory on Drive A.
Suppose you want to add some new printer device drivers to a
directory called C:\MSTOOLS, which already contains several
printer driver files for a word processor. To do this, you would
type:
replace a:*.prd c:\mstools /a
This command. adds any files from the default directory of drive
A with an extension of PRD (that do not currently exist in the
\MSTOOLS directory on drive C) to C:\MSTOOLS.
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