>>I wish to copy Directory X located in C:\X to E:\X.
>>There are many sub-directories and files in X.
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>>I dont want to use XCOPY or any command that would use DOS feature.
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>>Is there any Shell command or any other option.
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>I have done this before in VFP (so I could have a progress bar). I iterated through each directory, calling recursively the same function to add records for each file to a three-column array, which has the (1) source pathname, (2) destination pathname, and (3) description to display in the progress bar of what's being copied.
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>It was a small block of code. Generically like this:
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>PUBLIC gaFilesToCopy
>DIMENSION gaFilesToCopy[1, 3]
>* 1 = source pathname
>* 2 = destination pathname
>* 3 = (optional) message to display while copying each one
>lnCount = getCompleteListOfFilesToCopy(lcSourceDirectory, lcDestinationDirectory, .t., "gaFilesToCopy")
>FOR lnI = 2 to ALEN(gaFilesToCopy, 1)
>....* Copy gaFilesToCopy[lnI, 1] to gaFilesToCopy[lnI, 2]
>NEXT
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>PROCEDURE getCompleteListOfFilesToCopy
>LPARAMETERS tcSrcDir, tcDestDir, tlRecurse, tcArrayName
>LOCAL lnI
>* Get list of files, including directories
>FOR lnI = 1 to ALEN(laDirList, 1)
>....* If it's a directory, append to tcSrcDir and call recurisvely
>....* If it's a file, add it
>NEXT

You need to watch out with arrays -- with a large enough number of files, you can exceed the array size limits of VFP..