bomber said:
I , pretty urgently, need to download RoboCopy from somewhere. Can someone
point me to a url ? I've tried the microsoft site but could only find the
2003 version that support XP and Win2003 Server.
Hi
The only Robocopy.exe that is freely available is the one in the
free Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit:
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en
(The kit will install on WinXP or later, or you can unpack it with WinZip or
similar)
Should work OK on Win2k and WinNT4 as well, from the note part in rktools.chm:
<quote>
This version of RoboCopy was developed and tested under Microsoft Windows XP.
The recommended minimum operating system platform for this version of RoboCopy
is, therefore, Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
RoboCopy uses only standard, publicly documented Win32 application programming
interfaces (APIs)s throughout. For example, the program uses CopyFileEx() to
copy files, and FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() to read directories. In
theory, RoboCopy should run on any operating system that supports these APIs,
such as Windows NT version 4.0 and Windows 2000. However, if you run this
version of RoboCopy on Windows NT version 4.0 or Windows 2000, be aware that
only limited testing has been performed on these platforms. The theoretical
performance of RoboCopy might differ from practical results.
Because RoboCopy uses the CopyFileEx() Win32 API, it cannot run on Windows NT
3.1, Windows NT 3.5x, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition.
</quote>
