easy dos question

[jrobinson]

can somebody please tell me, so i can tell someone else, the dos command that will find from c:\ and all other directories, *.doc files and then copy them to floppy?

they have a 3.11 pc that's on it's last legs and is only booting to dos. we can't be bovered to fix it, we just want to get all the word docs.

[Xavier]

You could try xcopy....
I thing doing:
xcopy c:\*.doc n:\doc /s
might work in dos, it works in win98..
Good luck

[BAD.IRON]

If you just wont to view the doc files you can use the (dir) command. C:\dir *.doc
If you use the xcopy command add the /v and /s switches. C:\xcopy /v/s *.doc a:\

[CyberTech]

XCOPY C:\*.DOC A: /s should do the trick.

If you just want a listing of the files, you'll need to use DIR C:\*.DOC /s for files in all sub-directories.

[jrobinson]

excellent, thanks for that

[dataware]

The Xcopy command will work but do yourself a favor and use the Dir/s first to make sure that the files will fit on a floppy. If they won't then you should probably use the dos version of PKZIP with the span disk option.