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[Richard Hane]

Sorry, top posted.
   
  Actually Ken, when I wrote the original processing at the accounting firm I believe we were using either MSDOS 3.2 or 3.3 (the memory is fuzzy).
   
  Rick Hane
  Controller
  Deluxe Stitcher Company Inc.
  www.deluxestitcher.com
  

Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net> wrote:
    Quoting Bill Randall (Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:48:49 -0400):

> > To the best of my knowledge on *nix it will copy 0 length files.
> > Windows will not.
>
> C:\>copy autoexec.bat auto.tst
> 1 file(s) copied.
>
> C:\>dir auto*
> Volume in drive C has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 6039-128B
>
> Directory of C:\
>
> 05/23/2005 11:20 AM 0 auto.tst
> 05/23/2005 11:20 AM 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
>
> Works fine.

Microsoft apparently "fixed" this somewhere along the way, as it was
a known issue with MS-DOS and earlier versions of Windows that COPY
would not copy zero-length files.

  
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