Re: Sophisticated(!) copying in DOS

Dude. Check the hostility.

I have confirmed in damn near every thread that I AM running from the
command prompt.

I didn't understand your "explicit" so I asked for clarification.

My ONLY problem is with the /EXCLUDE switch. So it makes sense to me to
focus on that. It is not a tangent. It IS the problem.

Since the paths are correct when the switch is not in there, I am presuming
the paths are STILL correct when it is. I can copy between directories till
my toes curl, what I can't do is exclude a list of files. Which is all I
want to do.

My comment "I don't know where it is" - I have the batch file. It is on my
desktop. When it runs, I don't know what IT considers its "explicit"
location. If I move it to any directory, I get the same result - nothing.

I have done everything everybody has suggested. I have done my best to
explain what the results were, and if I tried modifying others' suggestions,
I have tried to explain that.

But thanks, for the first time in decades, I actually feel like I'm a moron.

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
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> "RJB" <notpublic@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> read everyone's posts and try following directions. Once it's working
>>> you can build from there.
>>
>> Um, I appreciate the advice, but I HAVE been trying to follow directions.
>> In fact, I will go one step further, and say that I HAVE followed
>> directions.
>>
>
> Then why haven't you tried it from a cmd prompt, while in the source
> directory, with the exclude file in the source directory, with no path
> names in the command line other than the destination directory? This will
> help to diagnose if it is a path related problem. I suggested this and
> your response was:
>
> What do you mean "make sure [I am] explicitly in the directory"? I am
> running the batch file FROM the destination laptop...
>
> Then you went off on a tangent about the /EXCLUDE parameter.
>
> I then posted again repeating the instructions and you said you don't know
> where the file is. If you don't know where it is how do you copy it in the
> first place? If it is a network share then just map a drive to that
> share. You seem unable or unwilling to understand and follow directions.
> I'm not trying to put you down. Diagnosing a problem by newsgroup is
> frustrating at the best of times. When you keep repeating that you are
> following directions when you clearly aren't it is even more frustrating.
>
> Kerry
>
>


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