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