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COPY and MOVE commands in NT

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I suspect these are old questions and the answer is just live with it, but... In DOS, Win9x & 2000, the COPY command, used interactively and subject to the "/Y" parameter, prompts before over-writing an existing target file. In Windows NT, it just overwrites and there is no "/" param. In DOS, Win9x and 2000, MOVE similarly prompts to overwrite an existing target file while in NT the move simply fails. Any solutions? How about a COPY.COM and MOVE.COM that would behave like the DOS versions? Anyone know where such utilities could be downloaded?

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Use the xcopy command that gives you more choices ( xcopy /?) check out "scopy & robocopy" that will copy files including filepermissions

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