Batch File

[mrdata2003]

i not sure i'm in the right forum but if someone could help it would be appreciated.

someone asked me the other day if i could write a batch file that to copy all the files from 2 directories onto a floppy for them but i had no idea! can anyone either show me or explain to me how i would go about this?

its a long story so please don't ask why,

thanks for any help!

[Allen]

Open notepad or something similar and type in the following 2 lines:

copy c:\folder1\*.* a:\*.*
copy c:\folder2\*.* a:\*.*

and save the file calling it whatever.bat. If it adds a .txt then rename the file in explorer to .bat.

Obviously you have to rename the directory to whatever it needs to be!

[mrdata2003]

i can write the batch file but cannot seem to be able to get it to list what is in the batch file i.e.: finance, documents all it says is that it contains 1 file and i need it to contain both the files so i can access them.

how can i do that? please

[Allen]

Erm, unless I missing something, the batch file won't actually contain the docs, it copies the docs to the floopy drive.

I'm afraid if that's not the answer then I don't understand your question...

[mrdata2003]

it mite be me then

i must not be writing it correctly then, i need to write a batch file to copy 2 files to a floppy so that you can access the 2 files on the floppy, they are both text files.

when i try to do it i find that on the floppy there is only a .bat file and not the 2 text files