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Subject:xcopy
Posted by:"Jacob Havkrog" (a@a.a)
Date:Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:57:50

Hi

I'm trying to use xcopy (c:\windows\xcopy.exe) to copy a file.

I'm calling it from a Delphi 1 application in order to overcome the problem,
that Delphi 1 doesn't know of long filenames (?).

So, what I'm trying to do is

  WinExec('xcopy c\:old.txt c\:newfilewithlongname.txt', SW_SHOWNORMAL)

and it works, except that I get a dialog to confirm that the destination is
a file and not a folder.

I've looked at the command line parameters of xcopy, but can't find a way to
suppress this dialog.

Can you help?

My basic problem is to create a file from my Delphi 1 app with a long fil
name, and this is the way I thought I could do it. Any other ideas?

Thanks
Jacob

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