>I'm trying to copy the contents of four directories
>from one machine to another programatically. The copies
>work fine in windows 95 using a dos bat file with the
>format: copy C:\Mydirectory\*.* S:\Mydirectory where S
>is a mapped drive. I would like to do this in VFP3 since
>I first update 4 files one each in the 4 directories I
>am copying and the update takes place in VFP3 and after
>the copy calls a VFP3 program which turns the originating
>machine off. The proble is that the DOS batch file
>proceeds to begin the copies without waiting for the
>VFP3 program to finish updating the files. I want to
>use a wildcard copy because the number of files is so
>large and I don't want to have to update this program
>if the system expands to include new files. Thanks
>Derek

You can use Fox native COPY FILE command. To support wildcards you can first collect file names into array (using ADIR() with wildcard) and then loop through this array.