Force copying without stopping due to problems
Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 06:36 AM
Good Morning, !
Today is Tuesday, September 27
By the time you are reading this, I will be on the road to
Foothills Hospital on the far side of Calgary. They want
to do a whole bunch of fancy testing, from MRI to injecting
me with a radioactive dye to measure exactly how much
blood my heart pumps per stroke.
One of the tests supposedly has me instrumented for 16 EKG
measurement points and hiking the hallways of the hospital
"for six minutes while accompanied by an escort".
Yeah, sure.
I imagine the escort will be some old docs on an electric
golf cart, yelling at me to walk slower, but I am quite willing
to let them surprise me.
I'll tell you all about how it went tomorrow.
Have FUN!
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"If you want to cut down on the number of relatives who are
hanging around, borrow money from the rich ones and lend
money to the ones who are poor. You will never see any of
them again."
--- Socratex
"Chance only favors a prepared mind"
--- Louis Pasteur
A patient, while recovering in the hospital from a heart
attack, met this over-zealous evangelist.
After listening politely for over a half-hour on how
thankful he should be to have been spared, and how he
should repent at once, he was asked if all of his sins had
flashed before his eyes during the heart attack.
The patient responded, with a deliberately slurry and sleepy
voice: "Don't be silly, the attack lasted only 6 hours! I just
got to where I ducktaped that preacher's mouth, when it
ended."
A family was having some people to dinner.
At the table, the mother turned to her little daughter and said,
"Dear, would you like to say the blessing?"
"I wouldn't know what to say," replied the little girl, shyly.
"Just say what you heard Mommy say." the woman said.
Her daughter took a deep breath, bowed her head, and
solemnly said,
"Dear Lawd, why in he-all did I let Dave invite all these
ungwatefull smobs to dinner again!?!"
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Red Maple among the Blue Eyed Marys
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD
goes to
Andy Huynh, Nicholas Kalscheuer and Nicholas Fiumetto, all 19,
in Covina, Cdalifornia
Three Stooges
Three Covina men are behind bars after they allegedly stole a
30-pack of Tecate beer from a market and attempted to escape
but crashed a car and hit an employee who chased them, then
one ran through a car wash and another left behind his ID.
Andy Huynh, Nicholas Kalscheuer and Nicholas Fiumetto, all 19,
were arrested Wednesday on charges of robbery, assault with
a deadly weapon and resisting arrest, according to a Covina
police report.
Kalscheuer and Fiumetto entered the Baja Ranch Market about
3 p.m. Wednesday while Huynh remained behind the wheel of
a car nearby.
Inside the store, Fiumetto grabbed a 30-pack of beer and the
two men ran out. Employees ran after the pair into the parking
lot, grabbing and detaining Kalscheuer and later turning him over
to police, according to the report.
Fiumetto, meanwhile, threw the beer in the car and jumped
in the front passenger seat.
As Huynh pulled out, an employee jumped on the hood of the
car to avoid getting run over. Huynh careened through the
parking lot, crashing against a curb and sending the employee
onto the pavement, scraping his arms in the fall, according to
the report.
Huynh and Fiumetto ran off. Fiumetto climbed a fence and ran
into the Citrus Car Wash next door.
Pepe Pinedo, the car wash manager, was standing amid drying
cars when he saw Fiumetto, pursued by two officers, run into
the car wash tunnel.
At the time, "there were two cars being washed in the tunnel,"
Pinedo said. "He got into the wash and the rollers and got all wet."
"By the time, he came out of the car wash, the officer was
already on the other end of the tunnel," he continued. "It was kind
of funny. It was a nice show."
Huynh ran off but had left his wallet and identification in the car.
Police officers contacted him later and convinced him to turn
himself in.
All three men are expected to be arraigned in court Friday. Until
then, they are being held in Covina City Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.
From the Tech Support Pits:
From: Trudy
Re: Force copying
Dear Webby
When I try copying my mail directory over to the machine
that has the CD burner, the Windows Explorer keeps tripping
up on all kinds of silly things, and of course each time aborts
the copying. This is driving me absolutely nuts! Is there a
way to do it from the DOS command line?
Trudy
Dear Trudy
That problem goes back a lot further than Windows and is
a bug in the copy command. Somebody forgot to put in a
way to recover from an error, just list it and get on with the
job. Incidentally, that is one of the major reasons DOS or
Windows never got mission critical certification.
Luckily around the time of DOS 2 somebody ported the UNIX
xcopy command eo DOS and Microsoft later adopted it very
quietly. Even though it works well, to this day there are
very few people that seem to know and use it.
As is common with UNIX commands, xcopy has about two
dozen "switches" to make it do exactly what you want.
If you want to see and print all of the options, go to the
command line:
START
RUN
cmd
then type
xcopy /?
You might want to print out the list of switches, or write
your favorite ones on a piece of tape on the monitor rim,
like a lot of pros do.
To copy a directory (folder) and it's subdirectories without
stopping for machine specific config files, which you don't
want to copy or overwrite anyway,
and copy only those files which are newer on the source
than the destination,
copy hidden and system files,
overwrite Read-Only files,
not show the list of files as they scroll down the screen,
and YES, dangit, copy the stuff without any silly prompts,
then use these switches:
xcopy source destination /S /V /C /H /Q /R /Y
You don't have to be at the source or the destination for
that to work. You can have that command in a text file with
a .bat extension, and hae that file in your toolbox folder, or
even on your desktop.
Like all DOS commands, xcopy works fine in bats.
You can put that line into a batchfile and make a desktop
shortcut icon to it.
That way you simply click on that shortcut icon and it
wheelbarrows all the new or changed files in your mail
directory AND it's subdirectories over to the machine with
the CD burner, without any fuss whatsoever.
Have FUN!
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