Further to Charles' comments:

"However, when executing a OS command such as "copy", you have an embedded blank in the path "\Fast Start\" which will cause that x "copy" to fail.

I think but not sure, you will need to convert that space to "%20", or better yet, if you can rename your directories NOT TO HAVE EMBEDDED blanks as part of their named paths."

(I use 8.02 on XP.) This doesn't work:

systask command 'copy e:\My SAS Files\New Text Document.txt e:\My SAS Files\copy of New Text Document.txt';

This does:

systask command 'copy e:\MySASF~1\NewTex~1.txt e:\MySASF~1\copy_NTD.txt';

As all long path and files names have a one-one association with a short path and filename. Paths are 8 characters, filenames are 8.3 (just like the old days ;-) )

However, what I tend to do is use a DATA step to write a BAT file, and put the copy statements in that. In this case, embedded spaces and such in the filenames are fine. Then use systask command to call the BAT file.

Rgds,

Robert

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