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Herb Martin
Historically "xcopy /v" verified a good copy by
reading back the copy and comparing with the original.
This was an important capability when copying to unreliable
media, across a WAN line, or when making a copy of any
file considered critical.
In Win2003, xcopy /help shows:
/V Verifies the size of each new file.
Both Win2000 SP4 and WinXP still indicate that /V "verifies
each new file" -- not just the size.
Is this really a change?
BTW, if you haven't tried "Help" on the Win2003 command line,
there are some new items built-in (an irritating version of shutdown,
as well as TaskList and TaskKill -- all of which formerly required the
ResKit.
Some others relatively new commands are listed below ("relative"
because I let a couple like "GPResult" and "ChkNTFS" into the
list because they not well known and/or frequently requested by those
who don't know they exist.)
--
Herb Martin
BOOTCFG Sets properties in boot.ini file to control boot loading.
CHKNTFS Displays or modifies the checking of disk at boot time.
DISKPART Displays or configures Disk Partition properties.
DRIVERQUERY Displays current device driver status and properties.
EVENTQUERY Displays event log entries for specified criteria.
FSUTIL Displays or configures the file system properties.
GPRESULT Displays Group Policy information for machine or user.
OPENFILES Displays files opened by remote users for a file share.
PAGEFILECONFIG Displays or configures Pagefile properties.
SC Displays or configures services (background processes).
SCHTASKS Schedules commands and programs to run on a computer.
SYSTEMINFO Displays machine specific properties and configuration.
TASKLIST Displays all currently running tasks including services.
TASKKILL Kill or stop a running process or application.
WMIC Displays WMI information inside interactive command shell.
reading back the copy and comparing with the original.
This was an important capability when copying to unreliable
media, across a WAN line, or when making a copy of any
file considered critical.
In Win2003, xcopy /help shows:
/V Verifies the size of each new file.
Both Win2000 SP4 and WinXP still indicate that /V "verifies
each new file" -- not just the size.
Is this really a change?
BTW, if you haven't tried "Help" on the Win2003 command line,
there are some new items built-in (an irritating version of shutdown,
as well as TaskList and TaskKill -- all of which formerly required the
ResKit.
Some others relatively new commands are listed below ("relative"
because I let a couple like "GPResult" and "ChkNTFS" into the
list because they not well known and/or frequently requested by those
who don't know they exist.)
--
Herb Martin
BOOTCFG Sets properties in boot.ini file to control boot loading.
CHKNTFS Displays or modifies the checking of disk at boot time.
DISKPART Displays or configures Disk Partition properties.
DRIVERQUERY Displays current device driver status and properties.
EVENTQUERY Displays event log entries for specified criteria.
FSUTIL Displays or configures the file system properties.
GPRESULT Displays Group Policy information for machine or user.
OPENFILES Displays files opened by remote users for a file share.
PAGEFILECONFIG Displays or configures Pagefile properties.
SC Displays or configures services (background processes).
SCHTASKS Schedules commands and programs to run on a computer.
SYSTEMINFO Displays machine specific properties and configuration.
TASKLIST Displays all currently running tasks including services.
TASKKILL Kill or stop a running process or application.
WMIC Displays WMI information inside interactive command shell.