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Dude
January 6th 04, 01:02 AM
In DOS (command prompt) use XCOPY with the /s switch

"xcopy /?" will give you a list of options and switches


>-----Original Message-----
>Hello all,
>
>There has got to be a simple answer to this, but i'm not
>finding it.
>
>I'm trying to copy all files of a particular type in a
>folder's subfolder to a single location in another
>folder. The original folder contains zip
>files/compressed folders. When I search for my files,
>the search window is including the files that are in .zip
>files/compressed folders.
>
>How can i exlude the files that are included in
>these .zip/compressed files?
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>WinXP Pro.
>
>thanks,
>jim
>
>p.s
>I tried copy from dos but couldn't find the syntax for
>including subfolders
>.
>

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