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- Short: Tiny directory/link/backup/copy program
- Author: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de
- Uploader: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de
- Version: 1.22
- Type: disk/bakup
- Requires: OS 2.0 or better
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
-
- Purpose of this program:
-
-
- Copy one or multiple directories. This is absolutely nothing new, but unlike
- other copy tools, this one tries to copy links as well. If the link source
- and the link destination is copied, "SortCopy" will erase the link
- destination and re-create the link to the copy of the link source. This
- works for both, SoftLinks and HardLinks, as well as links to directories
- as long as the directory and the link to the directory is copied.
-
-
- For more information, as well as for the copyright, I'd like you to read
- the guide in this archive.
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
-
- WARNING: Even though "softlinks" are partially integrated into the OS, this
- does not mean that they are fully working! I found that even the latest FFS
- version, V43.19, has problems with them and may invalidate your HD. This is
- NOT a SortCopy problem at all. So "use at your own risk"!
- _____________________________________________________________________________
-
- Version history:
-
- New in release 1.06:
-
- -Added the UPDATE command line option. See above for details.
-
- New in release 1.07:
-
- -SortCopy will now create a destination directory if it isn't
- already present.
- - The archive bit messages are now a bit shorter.
-
- New in release 1.20:
-
- Quite a lot: (Thus, the imense increase in the version number)
-
- - Added the PURGEBACKUP and PURGEONLY flags.
- - SortCopy can now copy files as well.
- - Links will be resolved across different wild card matches. This
- did not work before.
- - Rewrote major parts of this tool, code cleanup and minor bug
- fixes.
- - SortCopy is now "pure", i.e. can be made resident.
-
-
- New in release 1.21:
-
- - SortCopy handles now safely the situation where a file in the
- destination must be replaced by a directory from the source of
- the same name.
- - Introduced short-cuts for most command line options.
- - Wrote the guide.
-
-
- New in release 1.22:
-
- - SortCopy 1.21 showed a wrong error message in case the
- wildcard parsing failed. Fixed.
-
- ____________________________________________________________________________
-
- Thomas,
- February 1998
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 12584 6408 49.0% 21-Mar-98 22:54:20 +SortCopy
- 22400 7860 64.9% 21-Mar-98 22:53:40 +SortCopy.guide
- 537 285 46.9% 07-Feb-98 23:44:26 +SortCopy.guide.info
- 2453 1075 56.1% 21-Mar-98 22:54:10 +SortCopy.readme
- 856 377 55.9% 07-Feb-98 23:44:26 +SortCopy.readme.info
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 38830 16005 58.7% 02-Apr-98 22:23:24 5 files
-