Windows language or facilities for COPYing files?

[curiousguy44]

I want to set up a job that will do the following:

copy C:\folder1 to D:\folder1
copy C:\folder2 to D:\folder2.

I can't seem to find the language to do this.

I plan to set this job up to run once a week. That's the easy part--Task Scheduler. But how do I set up the language or instructions to actually copy from one file to another? If Windows 98 (or XP) has the language or facilities to do this, is there any special name I must give the file with the instructions? And how do I get an icon (the icon can be any old icon I can find) onto my desktop that will be a short cut to these instructions?

 

[Spike]

xcopy /e /v /c /g /h /r /o /y c:\folder1\*.* d:\folder1

copy it into notepad and save it as a .bat file, then set it to run once a week in the task scheduler

go to the command line, and type "xcopy /?" (without the quotes) to see what each of the switches I've included do.

 

[curiousguy44]

Tnx, Spike. Will this also work on an XP machine?

The code you showed me looks like a DOS command, and I know that MS-DOS is part of Windoze 98. So will that also work on a friend's XP machine, or is there some other code or facility I have to use?

 

[Spike]

yes, it works in the XP command console

To be honest, I don't know if it would work in win98s DOS environment though. The switches might be different for 98