On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> > I would be very surprised if xcopy did not exhibit the same
> > preallocating behaviour as copy.
>
> I, on the other hand, would not say anything until someone tried it, and
> then wouldn't be surprised if it behaved either way :-)
It pre-allocates the space as copy does. And yes, I did test :-p
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