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   Tom Del Rosso to All   
   Re: xcopy can't use exclude files with q   
   19 May 18 07:36:20   
   
   From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com   
      
   Zaidy036 wrote:   
   > On 5/17/2018 12:16 AM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:   
   >> Apparently xcopy can't use exclude files with quotes.   
   >>   
   >> C:\TEMP>xcopy /exclude:"exclude 1.txt" test*.* d:   
   >> Can't read file: "exclude 1.txt"   
   >>   
   >> And I thought the API handled quotes so that every program would   
   >> treat quoted names the same way.   
   >>   
   > use RoboCopy   
      
   I prefer XXCopy.  They both have unique features.  But in this case I   
   just removed the spaces because I want to go native.   
      
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