Waiting for Godot..er..copy

Waiting for Godot..er..copy
Richard Deeming

They also serve who only stand wait. This tip, from reader Richard Deeming, shows another method for allowing a program to stand and wait for a copy operation to complete, and adds some enhancements to the basic idea, which we have discussed in the past, as well.

There is a simple way to copy files and wait for the copy to complete. This method w

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ill also (optionally) show the standard Windows file-copy progress dialog box.

Thus, the function in the tip ("Transfer Downloads Automatically," mailed Nov. 7, 2000) would become:

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Richard Deeming is a Software development manager for Trinet Ltd. He is from Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, UK.