Hi

To ensure I have the latest file for something, when i run a .cmd to
start it, I simply copy the file from a central PC when the .cmd is
run on my PC. (the application is started on a few PCs). The
problem is, it the file is unavailable or the server is unavailable
then the application won't start. What is the best way of handling
this without negatively affecting the startup time too greatly please?

example so far

@echo off
net use J: /d
net use J: \\server\share$
xcopy "J:\server\file1.txt" "C:\Myapp\" /S /Y
net use J: /d /y


Cheers

Rich

"Richhall" <rje.hall@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> To ensure I have the latest file for something, when i run a .cmd to
> start it, I simply copy the file from a central PC when the .cmd is
> run on my PC. (the application is started on a few PCs). The
> problem is, it the file is unavailable or the server is unavailable
> then the application won't start. What is the best way of handling
> this without negatively affecting the startup time too greatly please?
>
> example so far
>
> @echo off
> net use J: /d
> net use J: \\server\share$
> xcopy "J:\server\file1.txt" "C:\Myapp\" /S /Y
> net use J: /d /y
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich

You could do it like so:

@echo off
ping server -n 2 | find /i "bytes=" > nul || goto :eof
xcopy /s /y /c /d \\Server\Share$\file1.txt" "C:\Myapp\"

thanks!!