Having a little trouble (1 Viewer)

[Disco_Stu]

Hello all,
Im trying to make a back up program. im having trouble trying to move the files to a set location. any help in acheiving this would be great.

PS please dont go off at me if this has been asked before, just redirect me.

 

[Winston]

would be great if you told us what language you're doing it in.

 

[Mithoric]

Well this goes for anything using the Win32 API --

You have 2 methods,

1. Reading the file and writing it to the location.
2. Using the MoveFile() API function which I'm pretty sure does 1 anyway.

MoveFile( LPSTR src, LPSTR dest );

I'm used to C++ so LPSTR means string for you vb simpletons.

 

[sunny]

VB: FileCopy function, no APIs needed.
Java: java.io, FileInputStream and FileOutputStream.

 

[Disco_Stu]

LOL, sorry guys forgot that, its VB thanx, ne way.

^ whats an API?

 

[sunny]

API is short for Application Programming Interface (there other abbreviations as well).

Its a way of letting you use pre written routines in the operating systems for some tasks that is either very common, or not possible natively in the language.

For VB, just use the FileCopy function built into VB.