Question about a strange issue with the move command, please help! - China DOS Union Forum

I copied Murder Case of Beilian Lake from one machine to another. In the folder, besides 0086.arj, there were also 0086.a01 and 0086.a02, plus a game.bat and a readme.txt file I created myself. One floppy disk couldn't hold everything, so I first copied 0086.arj onto the floppy, then on the other DOS machine I created a folder (the first machine was running XP). Then I directly used the move command from drive A: to move the file to the hard disk. The system asked whether to overwrite it? (This really confused me, the folder had just been created, it was empty, so how could it already have the file I was about to copy?) I chose y, and after it was done I went into the folder to look, and I was even more confused! Not only was 0086.arj in there, but all the other files I mentioned above were also there exactly the same, not one missing and not one extra. Did you guys follow that? What I'm trying to say is, I only copied over one file, and those other files I mentioned above are not contents of the 0086.arj archive (I extracted it and checked; at least the txt file I created myself is not). So how could this have happened? I tried it again and it was still the same. The third time, when the system asked whether to overwrite, I chose n, and then the computer only moved one file (0086.arj) to the hard disk. I still couldn't accept it, so I rebooted the machine and tried again. This time the system didn't even prompt me, it just directly moved that file to the hard disk, and those other files did not appear again.

I'm not very familiar with DOS, and this problem has me completely puzzled. I couldn't find anything about it in the reference materials either, so I had no choice but to come online and ask for help!

Floor1　pipilu888	Posted 2003-08-22 00:00
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I copied Murder Case of Beilian Lake from one machine to another. In the folder, besides 0086.arj, there were also 0086.a01 and 0086.a02, plus a game.bat and a readme.txt file I created myself. One floppy disk couldn't hold everything, so I first copied 0086.arj onto the floppy, then on the other DOS machine I created a folder (the first machine was running XP). Then I directly used the move command from drive A: to move the file to the hard disk. The system asked whether to overwrite it? (This really confused me, the folder had just been created, it was empty, so how could it already have the file I was about to copy?) I chose y, and after it was done I went into the folder to look, and I was even more confused! Not only was 0086.arj in there, but all the other files I mentioned above were also there exactly the same, not one missing and not one extra. Did you guys follow that? What I'm trying to say is, I only copied over one file, and those other files I mentioned above are not contents of the 0086.arj archive (I extracted it and checked; at least the txt file I created myself is not). So how could this have happened? I tried it again and it was still the same. The third time, when the system asked whether to overwrite, I chose n, and then the computer only moved one file (0086.arj) to the hard disk. I still couldn't accept it, so I rebooted the machine and tried again. This time the system didn't even prompt me, it just directly moved that file to the hard disk, and those other files did not appear again. I'm not very familiar with DOS, and this problem has me completely puzzled. I couldn't find anything about it in the reference materials either, so I had no choice but to come online and ask for help!