Hi,
running freedos 1.2 I have the following problem :
The installer for an old application is hardcoded to use "xcopy <src> <dest> /S/E/V", which no doubt worked on MSDOS, but the freedos implementation of xcopy complains about S/E/V being an invalid switch.
You might?? be able to rename XCOPY to _XCOPY.EXE and then create XCOPY.BAT that will call _XCOPY.EXE with %1 %2 %3 etc. holding the relevant args. IIRC, FreeCOM has a quirk where it will split "/S/E/V" into "/S /E /V" for you.
Heh thanks, I had forgotten about this. In the end I think I used an MSDOS xcopy renamed to ycopy.exe and just patched the installer to call "ycopy" instead. I do believe freedos' implementation should deal with switches without spaces though.
now supported in upcoming xcopy 1.7
Hi, great!
Do you have the permission to close threads? Then it would be great if you could close 29, 178 and 346.
no I lost the ability to do more than add comments here a decade+ ago