Robocopy built into Vista

OK, perhaps not news to everybody, but I was surprised to learn this yesterday.

Robocopy is a powerful file copying utility that's much more robust than COPY or XCOPY. It's especially useful for huge file copies, especially over flakey network connections. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy for details.

 In fact, if you run XCOPY /? in Vista, the help text begins with this:

NOTE: Xcopy is now deprecated, please use Robocopy.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 16, 2007
  XCopy deprecated... On no, all the .NET docs referencing XCOPY deployment are going to have to change :-)