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>run /n xcopy c:\test c:\test1 /s/e/i
It is often better NOT to include the /N parameter, since you want to make sure VFP waits for the XCOPY to finish before giving additional commands, for instance, to compress the newly-copied folder.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)