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Number   :  9467
Date     :  2004-12-11
Author   :  des4212001
Subject  :  Re: That stinkin' DEP.DUS
Size(KB) :  2



--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "John Zeman"  wrote:
> 
> --- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "des4212001"  wrote:
> > 
> > Well, obviously xxcopy isn't seeing any "\\El-Diablo\My 
> > Documents\DPE.DUS". What all the other "\\El-Diablo\{subpaths}
> > \DPE.DUS's" are about beats me.
> > 
> >
> 
> 
> I'm wondering if this DPE.DUS problem isn't somehow related to the 
fact that you are using this on a network. That's only a WAG (a 
guess) on my part though as I know almost zilch about networks. It 
does appear that to xxcopy "\\El-Diablo\My Documents\" is not 
actually the source, at least when it comes to the exclusions. 
Instead, at least for the exclusions, it certainly appears 
that "\\El-Diablo\" is the source. However even if that was so, it 
does not explain why the "\\El-Diablo\My Documents\DPE.DUS" file is 
not being excluded.
> 
> At the risk of making myself look like a total fool here (I'm 
literally shooting blindly in the dark on this subject) is it 
possible you somehow have "\\El-Diablo\My Documents\" set up to 
actually point to "\\El-Diablo\" or some other location instead?
> 
> That's the only somewhat plausible explanation I can come up 
with. However I also know if that was somehow true, that xxcopy 
would be copying a lot more directories than just "My Documents" and 
its subfolders.
> 
> John

"\\EL-Diablo\My Documents" is a share, which is actually "F:\My 
Documents\" if that makes any diference? Just as on the other 
computer "\\Cx532597-a\My Documents\" is a share there, which is 
actually "C:\My Documents\".

It was Kan I believe, referring to one of my share names, who said 
something like, "Who whould ever have a share by that name?" All I 
could figure was the space in the name? I had only glossed over his 
comment and immediately dismissed it as a bad day, as the "My 
Whatever" names are system generated in both flavors of Windows. 
Anyway, this has stuck in my mind, and I was going to try renaming 
the shares to something more unix, ie no spaces or use an 
underscore. Just to see if it makes any difference? Stranger things 
have happened.

I recently ran headlong into some major character understanding 
differences between Win98 vs WinXP. Tied to the unicode business I 
believe? Anyway, many characters, like the copyright & registered 
symbols, are displayed correctly in WinXP, but default to something 
else in Win98. This creates a situation where the names are indeed 
the same, but seen & understood differently by the 2 systems!

And as a further example, yesterday I suceeded in copying a URL to 
Win98 that contained a special character. WinXP had no problem with 
it, and it transfered ok, but created a file Win98 couldn't 
manipulate as it couldn't recognize it. Had to delete it with MS-
DOS, and rename it back on the source to avoid this problem again.

But all that's off the subject. This not recognizing an exclusion 
seems to directly related to the source being remote.

DES



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