Ouch, I havn't used Windows in such a long time that I had no idea that was the case for COPY. I guess I used to use XCOPY a lot back in the day.. but I also didn't write nearly as many batch files as I write bash scripts today.

A long time ago MS promised to include something not-stupid like korn shell or similar to replace CMD.EXE.. ahh well, promise lots, deliver incremental improvements that you can't live without. I guess it keeps more people from switching to Linux and MacOS because they think the next version of windows will fix all the problems.