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|    Robert Roland to All    |
|    Re: To stop XCOPY asking F or D in batch    |
|    28 Jan 19 22:19:32    |
      From: fake@ddress.no              On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 05:50:28 -0800 (PST), dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com       wrote:              >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy says "File names and wildcard       characters (such as * and ?) are not valid as source or destination       arguments.", which makes it incapable of doing the whole job itself.              It is true that you cannot use wildcard in the source folder name, but       in the file names, you can.              You can also exclude certain files based on wildcards. The /XF option       does that.       --       RoRo              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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