xcopy came later, like MS-DOS 3.x or so. You can use copy for multiple files;
it's just slower because it reads each file individually.
I've used the copy command in MS DOS on 86box recently. Just to verify though I
installed FreeDOS 1.2 on VirtualBox and I was able to copy fdos\bin\*.* to
another directory just fine -using copy, not xcopy.
Likewise I was able to create a zipfile out of fdos\bin\*.* and then copy the
resulting archive (which was 5 megs) to another directory.
This is using a stock installation. Default FreeCOM, default kernel.
If the bug is referring to another version (of Freecom?) I'd be happy to try
that instead.
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 8:58:51 PM UTC, Dale E Sterner
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'll have to try this on msdos 6.22 and pcdos 7.1. I'm sure I
used this command to transfer files from floppies to a
harddrive directory. a:\*.* c:\new\*.*. It shouldn't make
any difference if A: is changed to c:
Its been awhile..
cheers
DS
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:36:11 -0600 Jon Brase <[email protected]>
writes:
> copy on MS-DOS wasn't really meant for copying more than one file at
> a time (which is why xcopy exists), and FreeDOS uses the same
> command line syntax. Copy only accepts one destination file and
> treats all other filenames on the command line as sources. Also, the
> form new\*.* will expand to all the filenames *already in new*, if
> any, so even if copy did take multiple destinations, throwing in
> new\*.* for the destination would give you the results you expect
> (it would overwrite existing files in new with copies of the source
> files).
> Long story short, Microsoft meant for you to use xcopy for what
> you're trying to do back in the day, and FreeDOS is no different.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Dale E Sterner <[email protected]>
> Date: 11/12/2019 10:38 (GMT-06:00)
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 move, copy & xcopy
>
> I tried to move post.mp4 - a 3.5.meg file. - got insufficient memory
> error with move, copy & xcopy. The copy command sometimes
> has trouble with wildcard "*". I tried copy *.* new\*.* It copied
> only
> one file then stopped,. xcopy worked. The edit command has limits
> on size; had to use Wordperfect on one file. In 2015 Dennis talked
> about using vedit but can't find a dos version.
> In the new world large files are common.
>
>
> cheers
> DS
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