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Number   :  82
Date     :  2001-05-18
Author   :  Jim Witherspoon
Subject  :  Re: /WD Quiz answer
Size(KB) :  1


Hi Kan,

I'm glad I did well on the quiz! And by the way, I never could figure out
why the letter /I was chosen to suppress the "file or directory" prompt in
XCOPY. But now because of XXCOPY I know that /I stands for Initialize
Directory and I can remember the darn thing. :)

I think your design decision to get rid of the "file or directory" prompt
was a good one. There are times when it is useful to concatenate a bunch of
files (e.g. text) into one big file, but that isn't very often, and that can
be done in other ways.

jim

> The same goes to the destination specifier. Unlike the case of XCOPY,
> XXCOPY eliminated the file vs directory ambiguity for the destination
> specifier by not allowing it to be a file name. That is why XXCOPY
> will never issue the familiar user prompt of
>
> Does xxxxx specify a file name
> or directory name on the target
> (F = file, D = directory)?
>
> We eliminated this nonsense by not allowing the destination specifier
> to be a file. This is one of the very few cases where we deliberately
> chose to implement the behavior of XXCOPY different from that of
> Microsoft's XCOPY. We continue to believe this was a right design
> decision.



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