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Number   :  8644
Date     :  2004-09-02
Author   :  John Zeman
Subject  :  Re: exclusion of directories and his contain
Size(KB) :  1


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "ctheod"  wrote:
> 
> Please, can you explain the signification of /%X% in the exclusion 
> file?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> CT


External exclusion files (specified by the /EX option), and external 
command files (the /CF option) are used internally by xxcopy. So the 
values of environmental variables that you may use in a batch file 
are not automatically imported into those external files by xxcopy. 
To force xxcopy to recognize a variable in an exclusion (or command) 
file, instead of using the normal %VAR% syntax as you would in the 
batch file, you must precede the variable name with a /

For example, in one of my xxcopy batch files I assign the drive path 
of my destination drive to the variable %DST%. In my external 
command file, I use that variable like this:

C:\ :: Source
"/%DST%\" :: Destination


For more information you might want to read section 4.5 in technical 
bulletin #27

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy27.htm

Or read the last section in the page called "Environment Variables" 
in the xxcopy.chm help file that's available in the files section of 
this forum.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/files/

John



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