Since you are already using the system copy command, you could try invoking a seperate process for each of the five computers. Something like 
# assuming that you copy all the files in the local directory to all c
+omputers
# if not, you can change the src and computer variables to reference o
+nly the 
# files you need the start copy portion remains the same

  my @computer = qw( 'comp1\dir\*.*' 'comp2\dir\*.*' 'comp3\dir\*.*'
                     'comp4\dir\*.*' 'comp5\dir\*.*');
  my @rtncd = ();

  my $src = 'local\directory\*.*';
  $rtncd[$_] = (system("start copy /Y /Z $src $computer[$_]")>>8) for 
+(0..$#computer); 

  ... # handle return codes here

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This should start up five seperate processes in Win2K

PJ
use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;

In reply to Re: Copy Files from network by periapt
in thread Copy Files from network by gpurusho

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