Re: Problem Using CALL to DOS Copy using Wildcards

["Mueller, Daniel" <Dmueller@NMH.ORG>]

You receive an error? What does the error say?

My guess is that when you wildcard the filename,
it is probably PROMPTing you with an
"are you sure you want to do this?" type of message.

It may work when you do the DOS command because PROMPTING
might be turned off when you open a MS-DOS window.

Most command languanges have a command that turns off the
interactive mode when you want to run something via batch
and you want it to work no matter what
In DOS, the parameter is
/Y

In a DOS window, do a
COPY /?
to receive help on the copy command.

Microsoft(R) Windows 95
   (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1995.

C:\WINDOWS>copy /?
Copies one or more files to another location.

COPY [/A | /B] source [/A | /B] [+ source [/A | /B] [+ ...]] [destination
  [/A | /B]] [/V] [/Y | /-Y]

  source       Specifies the file or files to be copied.
  /A           Indicates an ASCII text file.
  /B           Indicates a binary file.
  destination  Specifies the directory and/or filename for the new file(s).
  /V           Verifies that new files are written correctly.
  /Y           Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
               existing destination file.
  /-Y          Causes prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
               existing destination file.

The switch /Y may be preset in the COPYCMD environment variable.
This may be overridden with /-Y on the command line

To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files
for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format).

C:\WINDOWS>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chitty, David [SMTP:DPChitty@HOMESIDE.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:41 PM
> To:   SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
> Subject:      Problem Using CALL to DOS Copy using Wildcards
>
> I am issuing a CALL in an SQR to copy multiple files into one file.  The
> command works fine from the DOS prompt.  It also works from the SQR if I
> provide the full name for one of the files.  However, when I use the
> wildcard (WO*.POS)to reference all of the files, I receive an error.
>
> The program code is as follows:
>
>   let $InputFile    = 'c:\temp\hsnabchs.POS'
>   let $copy_command = getenv('COMSPEC') || ' /c copy ' || 'c:\temp\WO*.POS
> '
> || $InputFile
>
>   call system using $copy_command #copy_status WAIT
>
> I also tried replacing copy with xcopy (the rest of the command line was
> left as is).  It accepted the command but prompted me with a pop-up window
> (which I don't want) requesting an F or D to indicate whether a file or
> directory was being created.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Dave Chitty
>
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