Another windows solution is robocopy; I prefer it over xcopy for robustness and functionality. For syncing, you'll want to look at the /MIR switch that will also removes files as appropriate so both dirs actually are the same.
That's a great little solution. I'll keep that in mind (in fact I have two other problems I can apply it to) but unfortunately one of the problems requires install on a Win95 machine for which Robocopy isn't compatible.
Dean
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