Re: Copying files to another drive

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To add a trivial note to what Pegasus said:
A batch file is a plain text file; you can create it with notepad or any text editor.
It may include any of the W2k commands; see Help/ Contents/ Reference/ MSDOS Commands. All syntax rules seen there apply to a BAT file.
Its filename always ends with ".bat".
When executed its behavior is exactly as you would see had you entered those commands in that order in a command window.

Charles L. Phillips wrote: 
Hello,
"Thank You"...
Can you recommend a good book on writing batch files???


Thank you,
--
Charles L. Phillips



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"Charles L. Phillips" <tptbusines_2205@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,
I have a folder containing several files. I have 3 drives, C:\, D:\ &


G:\

(Zip).
The Zip drive copies the folder at a certain of the day.
I want to do an XCOPY /V of the same folder, from the C:\ drive to the


D:\

drive. I want the process to take place everyday during the week (no
weekends) at a specific time of the day. Then I want a message to


"flash",

"XCOPY Of "filename" Completed at "time"...
Can/will someone direct me to a tutorial of this nature???


Thank you,
--
Charles L. Phillips


Create a scheduled task (Control Panel / Task Scheduler) and
make sure to run the task under the same account as your
foreground account.

Place your xcopy command inside a batch file like so:

@echo off
xcopy . . . .
echo.
echo %date% %time:~0,5%: XCopy completed.
echo.
pause






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