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Number   :  4433
Date     :  2003-04-24
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: Blank Directories
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> At 2003-04-21 02:44, Garry wrote:
>> Without dragging out a somewhat trivial (if interesting)
>> discussion too much, Xxcopy only prompts for the directory
>> creation if the trailing backslash is missing from the
>> destination and therefore there is some ambiguity.
> 
> I'm not sure what is ambiguous here. This is what we
> say in our doc.
>
 
>
> This is exactly how XCOPY works and we simply made XXCOPY
> behave the same way. If there is any ambiguity, it's
> XCOPY's documentation which does not talk much about
> the difference between with and without the trailing
> backslash in the destination specifier. I think Microsoft
> should publish a little more documentation than the help
> text generated by /?.

No I wasn't referring to any ambiguity in the behaviour of xxcopy or 
xcopy or even within the documentation. I simply meant that 
specifying a destination which doesn't exist without a trailing \ can 
be interpreted as meaning that the destination is either a file or a 
directory.

Garry



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