Hi, Mitch tested RXCOPY with various kernels:

> XCOPY    EXE        16,442  02-06-03 12:00a XCOPY.EXE
> XCOPY    TXT         4,082  02-06-03 12:00a XCOPY.TXT

Win9x DOS:

> A:\rxcopy>xcopy xcopy.txt b:
> [Operation completed with 15 or 16 disk swaps. When run from a DOS window 
> under Windows 95, the behavior is altered such that I failed in two 
> attempts to create a copy.]

> IBM DOS 5: 12 disk swaps
FreeDOS: more than 10 disk swaps, too...
> Win 2000: has no DJ mechanism, it seems, nor has it DOS mode

So it looks like we really have a bug in RXCOPY here. But where?
RXCOPY is supposed to load several 100 kilobytes of source files
before starting to write target files, so only ONE disk swap
should be needed to copy this 4k file. Any idea what is going wrong
here? At least it seems to be no kernel bug but an RXCOPY bug.

Eric



BCCing Rene - but I have not heard from him since 8/2003, I wonder
if he is still working with DOS at all...



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