{"id":39033,"date":"2004-06-03T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/06\/03\/my-first-death-threat\/"},"modified":"2004-06-03T07:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T07:02:00","slug":"my-first-death-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040603-00\/?p=39033","title":{"rendered":"My first death threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actual feedback submitted to  <a href=\"http:\/\/register.microsoft.com\/mswish\/suggestion.asp\">  the microsoft.com web site<\/a> many years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  <b>id<\/b>: 13726<br \/>  <b>Date<\/b>: 1996-07-29 17:27:41.997<br \/>  <b>Name<\/b>: ***********<br \/>  <b>Email<\/b>: *************<br \/>  <b>Area<\/b>: Windows 95<br \/>  <b>Comments<\/b>:<br \/>  PLEASE read this entire email as it is quite serious.  I just discovered today that in the Windows 95 operating system,  there are no switches, command line options,  or any way whatsoever to have the XCOPY command include  hidden\/system files in it&#8217;s operations.  It is clear that at some point in the development of the Windows 95 product,  that somebody made a conscious decision to implement the xcopy command in this manner.  It is also clear from looking at the Windows NT XCOPY command  that it can be implemented in the manner I describe.  Therefore, let me give fair warning. This may not be easy,  and I will expect no help from Microsoft in finding out who  this person (or persons) was that made this decision,  but&#8230;.eventually I will find out who made this decision,  and I will kill them.  This is not an idle threat &#8211; I will pursue this matter  until it is resolved&#8230;whoever is responsible for this incredibly  ridiculous implementation of what would be an otherwise useful  tool will die at my hands, hopefully in a bloody, painful fashion.  You will not get away. -J*hn ******   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  J*hn, if you&#8217;re still out there&#8230; the switch for copying  hidden files on Windows 95 is \/H.  Same as Windows NT.<\/p>\n<p>  Please don&#8217;t kill me.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actual feedback submitted to the microsoft.com web site many years ago. id: 13726 Date: 1996-07-29 17:27:41.997 Name: *********** Email: ************* Area: Windows 95 Comments: PLEASE read this entire email as it is quite serious. I just discovered today that in the Windows 95 operating system, there are no switches, command line options, or any way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-39033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Actual feedback submitted to the microsoft.com web site many years ago. id: 13726 Date: 1996-07-29 17:27:41.997 Name: *********** Email: ************* Area: Windows 95 Comments: PLEASE read this entire email as it is quite serious. I just discovered today that in the Windows 95 operating system, there are no switches, command line options, or any way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}