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    Difference between ShellCopy and regular Copy

    The description of ShellCopy says that a file is copied "using operating system file intrinsic operations." And, ShellDelete uses "operating system file operations." What does this mean?

    How is file_copy different than file_ShellCopy?

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    Re: Difference between ShellCopy and regular Copy

    FILE... functions are functions mainly developed by us and they works at byte level.

    Shell... functions are wrappers of functionalities present in the OS environment. More info at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762164(VS.85).aspx
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    Re: Difference between ShellCopy and regular Copy

    Is there a reason or situation to use one over the other?

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    Re: Difference between ShellCopy and regular Copy

    Well, more or less no other than an undocumented (in thinBasic help) feature that FILE_Shell... functions support multiple file names passing them separated by a $NUL char.
    I will document it.

    MS documentation is at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb759795(VS.85).aspx
    Read fields pFrom and pTo

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    Re: Difference between ShellCopy and regular Copy

    Quote Originally Posted by Eros Olmi
    Well, more or less no other than an undocumented (in thinBasic help) feature that FILE_Shell... functions support multiple file names passing them separated by a $NUL char.
    I will document it.
    Seems like I am always giving you something to do.

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    Re: Difference between ShellCopy and regular Copy

    Having nothing to do is the worst case.

    Anyway, do not exaggerate
    I'm just human
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