More testing:
I pulled out a restore CD that I made from a previous FreeDOS installation.
On that CD, FreeDOS DIR is able to distinguish codepage and codepage.ext,
and XCOPY is able to copy the ARACHNE tree cleanly.
That CD was probably not made with CDBurnerXP -- more likely Nero or NTI.
But
I *seemed* to be uncovering more problems with XCOPY, like failing to copy
large chunks of the ARACHNE tree from my restore CD back to the hard drive.
But as I said in a previous post, it now seems to me that XCOPY is not the
real problem.
I just ran another test in which I created a CD (from
