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- SyncDiscs
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- Disclaimer
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- David Pilling accepts no responsibility for any loss of data
- which occurs as a result of using this program, whether as a
- result of correct or incorrect operation. You use SyncDiscs
- at your own risk.
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- This program makes the contents of two discs or directories
- the same. I wrote it to allow me to keep an exact copy of my
- hard disc on a removable disc. No doubt it would also be of
- use for synchronising a portable computers disc with that on
- a main machine.
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- Clicking on the iconbar icon will reveal a window.
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- The top three icons can have directories dropped into them.
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- If Shift is held down the directory name will be appended to
- the current contents of the icon, with a comma in between.
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- If Control is held down the directory leaf will have one
- element removed - this is useful if you want to enter the
- root directory of a disc.
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- The first icon is 'Primary' this is the main directory the
- one that you want to make the other directory like.
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- The second icon is 'Secondary' this is the directory which
- is to be changed.
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- The third icon is 'Scrap' - any files which have to be deleted
- from the Secondary directory are moved here. If the scrap
- directory is left blank, then scrap files will be deleted.
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- All three icons can have more than one directory name in,
- separated by commas.
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- A number of options are provided.
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- These allow any newer files which are found on the secondary
- to be copied back to the primary. Another option allows
- extra files on the secondary to be copied back. However note
- that this option may result in the 77 files in a directory
- limit being breached.
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- Finally a log file can be created showing what has gone on.
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- The Save button will save the contents of the window -
- allowing the same operation to be easily repeated.
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- It is possible to call !SyncDiscs with some command line arguments.
- You'd do this if you wanted to automate the backup procedure. For
- example !SyncDiscs can be run from the !Alarm application.
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- The arguments are;
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- -quit Makes the program execute and then quit
- -primary <path> Set the primary path
- -secondary <path> Set the secondary path
- -scrap <path> Set the scrap path
- -log <file) Set the log file name
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- Missing command line arguments default to the configured values.
- For example if no -log argument is provided, the value entered in the
- window is used.
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- David Pilling
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- Release 1.01 05/11/97
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- Fixed problem where some times are not compared correctly
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- Release 1.02 19/11/97
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