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Our SEARCHER extender has a sample XCOPY in it, but more of the plain vanilla type rather than the one with all the switches.
If you're planning to use the Searcher extender's example for xcopy.wbt in the help file, you might want to search for the following article from the home page of the tech support database:
Article ID: W12553The current version of the Searcher (12/97) as posted in our download area has fixed two problems that existed in previous versions of the Searcher extender:
There is no built in command to do an Xcopy. Although you could brute force it with FileItemize, FileAttrGet, FileAttrSet, FileCopy, ItemExtract, ItemCount, and a few other functions, it would be quite an ordeal.
Mostly just use the DOS xcopy ala...
RUNWAIT("XCOPY.EXE","C:\DATA\*.* /M/V/S/Y C:\BKUP\DATA\")Or...
RunWait("command.com","/c xcopy ... ... /M/V/S/Y ...")To hide it, you might try RunHideWait with the PIF file for command.com that makes it run as a Windowed App and Closes Window on Exit. If you poke around a bit, you'll find the command.pif file.
TARGET="some directory info" MONTH="other directory info" BoxOpen("Copying files","") BoxText("Copying Netscape bookmark file... ") RunWait("XCOPY32.exe"," /c /e /h /q /k \\talon\talon_c\Data\Apps\Netscape\%TARGET%%MONTH%\Data\Apps\Netscape\ ") BoxText("ECHO Copying Quicken data files... ") RunWait("XCOPY32.EXE"," /c /e /h /q /k \\blazer\blazer_c\Data\Apps\Quicken\ %TARGET%%MONTH%\Data\Apps\Quicken\ ") BoxText("Copying Eudora mail files... ") RunWait("XCOPY32.EXE"," /c /e /h /q /k \\blazer\blazer_c\Data\Mail\ %TARGET%%MONTH%\Data\Mail\")Again, if you're having a problem with a window not closing properly, you will need a pif/shortcut to make it close. Your PIF file should be set to a windowed- (rather than full screen) window, and the "Close Window on Exit" should be checked.
In Windows 95, a PIF file is automatically created for your DOS application if you make any changes to how it's run, like if you change the DOS app to be a windowed app, rather than full screen. The PIF file will be stored in the C:\WINDOWS\PIF directory. The PIF directory is a hidden directory.
After you get the XCOPY stuff running 110% perfectly - with the DOS boxes closing (controlled by PIF files or shortcuts), THEN you change the RunWait to RunHideWait to hide the DOS boxes.
TIP: There are various tricks where with a single BAT file and a single PIF file for the BAT file
you can do anything.
The BAT file should look like:
%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 PAUSE ;Note: pause for debugging onlyMake a pif/shortcut for it. Then call it with something like:
Runwait("mybat.bat","xcopy ....")Then you don't have to manage a whole bunch of PIF files.
Article ID: W13229
Filename: Copying files XCOPY.txt
File Created: 1999:06:30:11:31:28
Last Updated: 1999:06:30:11:31:28