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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:58:28 PST8
From: "Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: More flash drive humor...

In <200512142248140.SM02280@MAIN>, on 12/14/05
at 10:50 PM, "Mark Abramowitz" said:

>Using xcopy S:\ F:\ /h/o/t/s/e/r/v, where S is my cd drive, and F is my
>flash, I tried this. However, after boot.cat, which is in S:\bootimgs,
>came up, I received an error message:

>SYS1187: XCOPY cannot access the target file.

The xcopy should work. You do need to have the flash volume formatted to
accept LFNs if the source contains LFNs. Perhaps, it's just xcopy being
brain-dead like its cousin, cmd.exe.

You might try 4os2's copy command which can do everything xcopy does which
fewer problems.

>I'm speculating that maybe there's something special about that file.

There's not.

>Time to stop and give up?

That's up to you. :-)

Steven

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