I have recently upgraded to Aug 20th version of XPCREATE, having used a 2004 version successfully.

Within about 10 seconds of starting XPCREATE.CMD there are 3 open DOS windows all actively doing something.

The XPCREATE 20 AUG 2005 window lists its activities but these are interspersed with multiple lines of "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process".

Simultaneously another window says "Windows cannot find
'TEMP\SPACKS\UPDATE\UPDATE.EXE'..."

And a third window is listing all the files that are being copied.

Perhaps /WAIT is not activated to ensure one process finishes before another starts. This might explain why 3 windows are all doing things at the same time and UPDATE.EXE cannot be found because it hasn't been copied yet.

In the XPCREATE.LOG file the start time is given at the start of the listing but it is blank at the end. Not very important by itself but it suggests that the start time has not been saved at the start of XPCREATE.CMD and may give a clue about what has gone wrong.

Check your XPCreate.ini if this line exists

XPCREATE.CMD had STARTSWITCH=/WAIT /MIN but it is obviously bypassed.
XPCREATE.INI did not have it but it now does and everything worked perfectly.
Thank you for your suggestion.

Glad it worked for ya peter but remember the EULA of xpcreate please - looking at the code of xpcreate.cmd is a no no [afaik]

Regards
Nath.

Point noted but I'm old enough to know about DOS and used:

find "STARTSWITCH=/WAIT /MIN" /c /i xpcreate.cmd &
find "STARTSWITCH=/WAIT /MIN" /c /i xpcreate.ini

to get counts of 1 and 0 - no need to look at the code!

lol cheating that is

Regards
N.