In this case, you will probably be more happy with some other alternatives: Windows Scripting Host, or API. I don't know these too well, which is one reason I use old-fashioned DOS-commands; but I do think you can get more information with WSH or API functions.
Hilmar.
>Hi Hilmar -
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>I don't think I like the idea of shelling out (via the RUN command), as failure of the XCOPY command to complete it's assignment would not be known to my application.
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