Here's an interesting tip from Simon Sheppard for those scripts that need to XCOPY files in both Windows NT 4 and 2000:
From: simon@spam.invalid (Simon Sheppard)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.batch.nt
Subject: Re: XCOPY in batch NT4/Win2000
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:26:19 -0400, Rick Charnes
<rick.charnes@thehartford.com> wrote:
>I've just heard that under Win2k XCOPY defaults to 'prompt to overwrite
>each file' and a /Y switch will suppress prompting, whereas under NT4 it
>defaults to 'automatically overwrite each file' and /Y is not a valid
>switch. Boy, does this complicate batch files that need to run under
>both OS's. Can anyone confirm this? Any tips for dealing with this
>problem?
Yes I can confirm this
The workaround is to use the COPYCMD env variable
set COPYCMD=/Y
This will turn off the prompt in Win2000 and will be ignored by NT4
http://www.ss64.com/nt/xcopy.html
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Simon Sheppard
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