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Re: [LUG] XCOPY was OT: Why oh why windows at work? . . . File copying

 

Paul Sutton wrote:
> xcopy is great it got me out of a sticky situation once where Windows 98 
> was asking for the Windows cd to load the cd driver in order for it to 
> install the driver to read the cdrom.
> 
> I used xcopy to copy the cd to the hard disk then told windows to look 
> there, it was  happy after that.

Too bad that even xcopy can't be used to copy anything more than simple 
files (e.g. a whole OS) to another hdd like you can with cp or dd on Linux.

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