Chris Rogers wrote:

>  Thanks, but again, no luck.  I do not have this problem if I use
>  robocopy but robocopy does not come with windows 2000 and I need it to
>  work on that as well.

Have you tried:

system "$ENV{COMSPEC} /C xcopy c:\\somedir\\*.* c:\\otherdir /s /e /i /y";

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