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Number   :  8646
Date     :  2004-09-02
Author   :  ctheod
Subject  :  Re: exclusion of directories and his contain
Size(KB) :  1


> 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

Thank you,

CT



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