DOS File Transfer commands needed

Beaney wrote on 9/6/2002, 1:12 PM
I am trying to copy several 3.99 Gb AVI files across a network with both PC's using Win 98 Fat 32.
Of course this does not work.
I read somewhere that it can be done in DOS but I am not sure if it can be done across a network via ethernet.
Does anyone know if it is possible and what the commands to do it would be.

Regards.

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Cheesehole wrote on 9/6/2002, 1:21 PM
i'm not sure if this will solve your problem, but I would probably map the network drive (in windows explorer) so it appears in your list of drives as a letter (G: for example). then open an MSDOS command prompt window.

use the following command to copy the files. this command will copy all the AVI's in a particualar folder to another place (G drive in this example)

copy C:\PathToYourFiles\*.AVI G:
Chienworks wrote on 9/6/2002, 1:25 PM
copy may suffer some of the same limitations as Windows Explorer. If it doesn't work, try xcopy32 instead of copy. If you don't have xcopy32 installed, it should be found in the \TOOLS\OLDMSDOS\ directory of any Windows 95/98 install CD.
Beaney wrote on 9/7/2002, 1:46 PM
Thanks for the replies.
Since this was a general windows problem and not VV3 specific I went to a UK windows forum and posted there.
2 programs that should work are XXCopy and WinAce, which will let you split the file in to smaller lumps.
I have a network hub collision problem to solve before I get it right so I will post back with the complete answer when I have it if anybody is interested.

Regards.
Beaney wrote on 9/11/2002, 2:56 PM
OK I've copied the files to another PC. All 54 Gb of it but I had to work round it rather than fix it.
Essentially if you have FAT 32 you cannot send the files to another PC either in Windows or DOS by any method I could find.
If you have waited until you have less that 4 Gb of space left you cannot chop the 3.99 Gb file in to 1 Gb lumps which you can send (with WinAce Archiver for example).
What I had to do was disconnect the CD from the PC with the files in and connect the HDD that had space on it to the second IDE channel. I could then use xcopy to copy them from G: to H:
When finished put the HDD back in the PC it came from and re connect the CD writer.
Bye