Aha... thanks a lot
Well that sure is annoying. I've coded 'around' the issue in the mean time by starting a timer that restarts the process (a /copy error apparently doesn't go to the :error handler.. bah) and warns me that there was a problem. I guess I can dump the copying of potentially problematic files to a .bat file, then /run that, then check the results to see if there were any -actually- problematic files.
Or I can pick up VB/VC++ and learn to code with those. Shame, though, mIRC technically has everything I'd need it to do (file access with properties, crc/md5, display output, connectivity, etc.). I guess I'll keep trying for a bit, but if hitting more non-trivial snags (that consecutive spaces bit is another) I'm not going to waste more time on it.
