CopyOrExpand

Copy files from Install CD's where a file can be present either in normal or compressed format.

Syntax

CopyOrExpand,<FileToCopyOrExpand>,<DestinationFolderOrFilename>[,PRESERVE, NOWARN]

Remarks

Compressed files often use the cabinet archiving method and usually have an identifiable character as the last character of their extensions. (e.g. myFile.Tx_ ). Windows XP often uses this method to compress files on the install CD.

• If the destination file already exists, CopyOrExpand gives a warning in the log, and will overwrite the existing file.
• If the optional PRESERVE parameter added, CopyOrExpand of a single file will not overwrite an existing file however a warning is still given.
• The warning can be suppressed by an additional parameter NOWARN .
• The parameters PRESERVE , and NOWARN can be used simultaneously. The order does not matter.

DestinationFolderOrFilename means that you can either specify a folder where this file will be placed with the original (expanded) filename or new filename that you prefer.

Example

In this example CopyOrExpand will first try to find a file c:\MyPath\myTextFile.txt and if it is not found then it will look for c:\MyPath\myTextFile.tx_ and expand this file if successfully found.

CopyOrExpand,c:\MyPath\myTextFile.txt,c:\MyPath\myNewerTextFile.txt