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QUIKCOPY 3.39a
(Beta Release - Registered users only)
by
Roland Skinner
Copyright (c) 1993
RJS Software
This file contains information about the new features in this beta release
of QUIKCOPY. This is not a complete documentation. Note that the
documentation for QUIKCOPY is currently being totally rewritten; the
documentation for QUIKCOPY v3.34 is included here.
Firstly, this beta release is for registered users only. Registered users,
run the registration program, REGISTER.EXE, that came with your registered
version of QUIKCOPY to register this program. Follow the instructions that
came with it to make this beta release functional.
Truly-wild wild-cards
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
QUIKCOPY now accepts truly-wild wild-cards. The wild-cards implemented are
a super-set of those available in JP Software's 4DOS, and Symantec's
licensed NDOS.
The best way to demonstrate these wild-cards is by way of example.
1. If you want to copy all files containing "S" somewhere in the name-part
of the filename, simply use
*S*.*
as a source parameter.
2. If you want to copy all files starting in "A", "B", "C", or "D", then
use
[A-D]*.*
as a source parameter.
3. If you want to copy all files starting with "A", "E", "I", "O" or "U",
then use
[AEIOU]*.*
as a source parameter.
4. Combinations of the above are also allowed. Suppose you wanted to copy
all files that had "R", "J" or "S" somewhere in the extension-part of
the filename. Simply use:
*.*[RJS]*
as a source parameter.
5. Also, you can specify that you do not want certain characters to appear.
Suppose you wanted to copy all files that did not start with "A" or "B",
then you would use
[!A-B]*.* or [!AB]*.*
as a source parameter.
6. Suppose you wished to copy all files whose name-parts were 3 characters
long, and start with "AB". One may think of using
AB?.*
yet this will copy files of the type "AB.*" as well. Instead, one should
use
AB[?].*
as a source parameter.
Exclude files
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
QUIKCOPY now allows one to exclude certain files, while copying. The
sequence
[!"...."]
should be used.
More examples:
1. Suppose you wanted to copy all files, except "*.BAK" files. You would
use
[!"*.BAK"]
as a source parameter.
2. Suppose you wanted to copy all files that did not start with "R", "J" or
"S", then you would use
[!"[RJS]*.*"]
as a source parameter.
3. Note, if you wanted to copy all files that did not contain an "S" in the
name-part of the filename, then you would not use
*[!S]*.*
but rather
[!"*S*.*"]
as a source parameter. What at first may seem intuitively correct, is in
fact not. The former means that any file which does not contain an "S"
in one of the name-part positions in the filename may be copied, whilst
the latter means that only files that don't contain an "S" in the
name-part will be copied.
Multiple source files
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
QUIKCOPY now allows multiple source files/masks to be specified. By simply
separating each source mask with a semi-colon (";"), you can have multiple
source files.
For example, suppose you wish to copy all ".EXE", ".BAT" and ".COM" files.
The following source parameter would do the trick
*.EXE;*.BAT;*.COM
Note that no spaces are allowed.
Source parameters in general
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Note that any combination of the above may be used as source parameters.
Automatic destination directory creation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
QUIKCOPY now creates the first-level destination directory when copying (or
potentially copying) multiple files to a certain destination.
For example, if one had
*.EXE TEMP
QUIKCOPY will create a directory "TEMP" and all the ".EXE" files would be
copied to that directory.
Note that QUIKCOPY will only create a first-level subdirectory
automatically. For example, it won't create the subdirectory "TEMP\TEMP".
Beeps and bells while disk-copying
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
QUIKCOPY now beeps at the end of each stage during the copying of
diskettes.
Quieter disk-copying
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Disk-copying is now somewhat quieter during waits between diskette changes.
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Any correspondence may be forwarded to the address below.
Send your recommendations, bug-reports, requests, registrations, etc. to
Roland Skinner, or RJS Software, at:
P.O. Box 14134
Bredell
1623
Republic of South Africa
The above address is not a residential address; only a box number.
Anybody who is the first to recommend a feature that is later added to
QUIKCOPY, or is the first to report an error in the working of QUIKCOPY,
will have his/her name added to the THANK YOU section of this document.
Users requesting faster replies, etc. may send an Email message to Roland
Skinner on one of the echomail conferences in South Africa - I recommend
"RsaSOFT" - or (preferably) netmail me. My personal Email addresses are:
FIDONET: Roland Skinner @ 5:7101/55.1
InterNet: roland.skinner@p1.f55.n7101.z5.fidonet.org
roland@concave.cs.wits.ac.za
ILink: SHAREWARE conference - Roland Skinner
RsaNET: RsaSOFT conference - Roland Skinner
Since this is a beta-release, I would appreciate your comments and
recommendations, especially bug-reports, even more.
Yours faithfully,
Roland Skinner