COPY help states:
This also happened with TC 9. OK, I suppose these are directories, not files, but I expect hidden attributes to be preserved on directories as well.
<table style="line-height: normal; width: 520px; height: 47px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr style="vertical-align: baseline;" valign="baseline"> <td width="48">/H</td> <td>Forces COPY to process hidden and system source files, as well as normal files. The hidden and system attributes from each source file will be preserved when creating the destination files.</td></tr></tbody></table>
However:
Code:
1.85G C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli> md tmp0
1.85G C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli> md tmp0\a
1.85G C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli> md tmp0\b
1.85G C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli> attrib /d +h tmp0\a
____D________ -> _H__D________ C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli\tmp0\a
1.85G C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli> dir tmp0
Volume in drive C is Boot Serial number is 585e:fd20
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli\tmp0\*
03/12/2009 23:21 <DIR> .
03/12/2009 23:21 <DIR> ..
03/12/2009 23:21 <DIR> b
0 bytes in 0 files and 3 dirs
1,986,910,720 bytes free
1.85G C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli> copy /h/s tmp0 tmp1
TCC: (Sys) There are no more files.
"C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli\tmp0\*"
TCC: (Sys) There are no more files.
"C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli\tmp0\a\*"
TCC: (Sys) There are no more files.
"C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli\tmp0\b\*"
0 files copied
1.85G C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli> dir tmp1
Volume in drive C is Boot Serial number is 585e:fd20
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli\tmp1\*
03/12/2009 23:22 <DIR> .
03/12/2009 23:22 <DIR> ..
03/12/2009 23:22 <DIR> a
03/12/2009 23:22 <DIR> b
0 bytes in 0 files and 4 dirs
1,986,907,648 bytes free
1.85G C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli> ver /r
TCC 10.00.59 Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
TCC Build 59 Windows XP Build 2600 Service Pack 3
Registered to John Belli - 1 System License
1.85G C:\Documents and Settings\jabelli>