>>>HEATHEN! How can someone of your obvious wisditude fall back on XCOPY, which, BTW, has different switches on some operating systems...
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>>Hm. That bites. I'll look into the switch differences.
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>Hint: XP and Win2K both have extra attributes to deal with extent, SID and permission issues.

Ah, am on XP and Win2K and "extra" is no problem. The only problem would be obselete or redefined, in this application.

>>>I'm SO disappointed!
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>>Hee, hee. Occasionally I just have to use the DOS box to know I'm still alive.
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>I can think of other ways to test that!

Ed, go out an look at the ducks and geese and have a nice cuppa tea for me. (It's winter here, today. Thank the Great Turtle for posole.)