Vista: shell copy failed

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hello,

I´ve two Vista premium home Notebooks. One works - other failed doing this

with in a PBDos.exe

...


1) shell "copy c:\filiale\ll.dat c:\filiale\llok.dat"
--> DOS-error: File not found

If I do it manualy in the Dos-app then it works fine


2) trying this
shell "robocopy c:\filiale\ll.dat c:\filiale\llok.dat"
---> robocopy error 123 (0x0000007B) access to c:\filiale\ll.dat failed

If I do this manualy the same error occurred.

but the c:\filiale\ll.dat is there

3) Using Pbwin8.0

copyfile "c:\filiale\ll.dat","c:\filiale\llok.dat"
---> works file


Thanks for help

Matthias Kuhn

[Michael Mattias]

try SHELL "CMD /C copy src target"

Better still, write your own "copyfile" function in code. It's a little more work in PB/DOS than in Windows since you can't get more than $STRING bytes at one time, but it's still not all that hard.

However, that 'access denied' thing suggests the file was in use or security was prohibiting access.

[Matthias Kuhn]

CMD /C works

Hello Michael,

shell "CMD /C copy src Target" works fine.

Many thanks !!!

Matthias Kuhn

[Michael Mattias]

I don't know if I should be pleased about that or not.

SHELLing to make a file copy is so, so... so Philistine.

[Matthias Kuhn]

I agree...

Hello Michael,

I agree but this piece of code is about five Years old and this time it was

the simplest and quickest and savest to do it this way.

I vow to make it more professional in future.

Regards

Matthias Kuhn

[Michael Mattias]

> vow to make it more professional in future.



If I had a nickel - or five pfennigs, I guess - for every time I have heard, "We'll code it cheap and dirty just to get it done and we'll clean it up in the future" and that cleanup never happened, I would be wealthier than Croseus.

MCM

[Wayne Suite]

Same file fails on different machines

Is there by any chance a difference in user level on the 2 machines?

Just a thought UAC is a pain, mostly.