Subj : Re: Bluetooth To Ethernet
To   : Barry Martin
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Thu Apr 09 2026 08:54:00

BARRY MARTIN wrote:
> Hi Ky!
> Right. I think some of the confusion is "drive" can mean both the
> physical drive (so a "2TB drive") as well as a partition on a drive ("my
> 'drive e' is 2TB on my 6TB drive -- which is driving me crazy! <rs!>").
>   
> As for the barfing, some may be due to the way the data is written in
> the BIOS.

It's whether the BIOS supports it. If not, it will either see it wrong 
or not at all.

> 
>   > Or whatever the Windows criteria is.  Just checked and doesn't appear
>   > there is an 'archieve' switch (the -a).
>   KM> Yes there is, dir /a shows that, and XCOPY knows about it. It is
>   KM> quite an old function, as XCOPY goes back to ... DOS 5, I think?
>   KM> 1990s, anyway.,
>   
> OK. The help screen for 'copy' didn't show anything for setting the
> archive switch; did for 'xcopy'.

Because they're not the same :D

> 
>   KM> There is also a last accessed flag, tho, plus the date created
>   KM> and date modified flags.
> 
> Must be in extended help.  ...I've forgotten so much on Windows since
> switching!

It's visible in Explorer, if you set it that way. There's a raft of 
stuff you can make visible if you want.

> 
>   > Oh: the reasoning behind use of the full pathname was in case the
>   > computer got confused because there wasn't something to do in a previous
>   > step it would know exactly where you wanted the file.
> 
>   KM> And use XCOPY if you want to take the entire directory structure,
>   KM> or rely on the ARCHIVE bit.
>   
> Yes: XCOPY is a lot more robust that COPY but definitely overkill for
> simple copying.

Unless there are subdirectories. Don't forget the subdirectories!
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