Copying DOS dir

[maface]

I need to copy files from dos but need the directory info to also copy, Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

[John Prophet]

you mean you want to copy a whole folder?

[J-Excel]

not sure if i understand the question, but have you tried 'xcopy /?' to see if xcopy does what you want?

[maface]

I don't need to copy the whole folder but the person I am sending the files to wants to know the location that the file resides in. I think I can do it with PKZIP but was wondering if there was a way in DOS to copy the dir info along with the file

Thanks Guys

[John Prophet]

I have an mcse folder and a quickbooks folder...so I tried

"xcopy mcse quickb~1" and it just copied the loose files in the mcse folder.

So then I used--------

"xcopy mcse quickb~1 /e /i" and that got the folders within the mcse folder and copied them over.

I dont see a way just yet to actually do the command to where it will bring the whole mcse folder itself over..but I am sure its just a syntax thing

[John Prophet]

ok. Say I just have a folder called mcse with some sub folders etc in it...and I have a folder called quickb~1

To copy the whole mcse folder and its contents you just type the name of the folder in the destination, like this

"xcopy mcse quickb~1\mcse /e /i"

That creates an mcse folder in the quickb~1 folder.


Xcopy rocks!

/e = Copies directories and sub directories, including empty ones.

/i = If destination does not exist and copying more than one file, assumes that destination must be a directory.

[duffyone]

maybe you might want to try this?

make a new folder with the same name on a different drive or floopy or whatever... copy the files you want to send 'em to that new folder ... go to that folder in explorer, right click and go to "send to:" send it to a zip ...

when he/she unzips it... the files will be in the same folder as yours. Well, maybe not the same folder, but one with the same name as yours.

Oh, and it's dos so make sure the folder name is eight or less characters.. a dos thing you know.

you could do the same thing at the c: prompt... but the outcome is the same

[meese]

From DOS the operating system? or do you mean using the command prompt? What directories do you want to copy, were they created by you or DOS system directory?