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- CSWEEP -- A command-line file management program:
- Documentation for Version 2.1
- ====================================================
-
-
- Lindsay Haisley
- 14206 Spreading Oaks
- Leander, TX 78641
-
-
- DESCRIPTION:
- ============
-
- CSWEEP is a file copy program similar in function to the popular SWEEP and
- NEWSWEEP programs. Unlike these programs, CSWEEP operates entirely from
- command line options and has no interactive mode. In this respect it is
- similar to Digital Research's PIP program. CSWEEP however, offers the
- following options not available with PIP.
-
- ** Multiple copies on different drive/user areas with a single operation.
-
- ** ZCPR3 style drive/user access. Source and destination files may be on
- any drive (A thru P) or user area (0 thru 31).
-
- ** Source file may be deleted after copying (-d option)
-
- ** True CRC file copy checking (-v option)
-
- ** Version 2 provides a pre-copy file size and disk freespace check.
-
- CSWEEP is extremely useful for copying or moving files with any program or
- operating system that uses command files, such as SUBMIT. It will also
- save many keystrokes over SWEEP or NEWSWEEP when moving large numbers of
- files around in your disk system. CSWEEP is as fast or faster than these
- programs for all types of file copy operations.
-
-
- USAGE:
- ======
-
- The command line format for CSWEEP2 is:
-
- CSWEEP f1 [f2 .. fn] sdu: ddu1: [ddu2: ... ddu6:] [options]
-
-
- Optional command arguments are in square brackets. The arguments are:
-
-
- f(x) -- Ambiguous file names
- sdu: -- Source disk/user or * for current (e.g. a0:)
- ddu(x): -- Dest. disk/user or * for current
-
- Options:
- -v Verify (CRC)
- -d Delete source copies
- -r Report stats
- -s Report and copy
-
-
- All drive/user designations are in the form of a drive letter followed by
- an OPTIONAL user area number followed by a colon, as in the example above.
- Any other format will be flagged as an error. The current user area is
- assumed if none is given.
-
- Note that Vs. 2 will allow the use of the "*" for any d/u spec to designate
- the current disk drive and user area.
-
- Filenames, drive/user specs and options may be given in any order with the
- exception that the first valid drive/user spec encountered will be
- interpreted by CSWEEP as the source d/u for copying.
-
-
- AMBIGUOUS FILE NAMES:
- =====================
-
- CSWEEP accepts ambiguous file names of the standard CP/M sort with one
- addition. An ambiguous file name (afn) preceded by a "!" causes all names
- matching the given afn to be EXCLUDED from the resulting copy. Thus, to
- copy all files except "COM" files from a: to b:, say:
-
- CSWEEP *.* !*.com a: b:
-
- When giving a "!" afn, "*" chars in the string match to the end of either
- the filename or extension, just like CP/M, but "?" chars match ONE and
- ONLY ONE character in either the filename or extension.
-
-
- OPTIONS:
- ========
-
- CSWEEP accepts four command options which must be preceded by a "-" sign.
-
- -D Delete the source file after all copies have been made. If a write
- error of any sort occurs during a file copy, the source file will NOT
- be deleted.
-
- -V Verify each copy with a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy) check. This option
- will slow down the operation of CSWEEP considerably since each copy
- file must be read back and verified against the CRC of the source.
-
- -R For each disk to receive copies, summarize the available space and
- determine the total size of files to be assigned to that disk. For
- each disk, the block size, free space, total of files assigned and
- remaining freespace (after copying) are given. Note that if target
- disks have different block sizes then the total size of assigned files
- will vary accordingly. This option will give only the size report. No
- copying will be done.
-
- -S Same as the -R option except that copying will be done automatically
- following the report unless a disk with insufficient space to receive
- copies is found, in which case an option to abort the copy is offered.
-
- Note that if any of the files to be copied already exist on a target disk
- then the space report for that disk will be in error. New files will
- simply overwrite old files of the same name.
-
-
-
- OPERATION:
- ==========
-
- CSWEEP will copy all files as instructed unless a BDOS file error is
- encountered in the copy process. If an error occurs in creating or
- writing to a copy file, CSWEEP will report the error, delete the partial
- copy (if any) and drop the disk/user in which the error occurred from
- further copy operations. After completing it's work, CSWEEP will report a
- tally of files copied and errors encountered.
-
- Version 2 now allocates memory space dynamically at run time so that it is
- not necessary to set the memory size in the object code as with version 1.1.
-
- A serious bug in Vs. 1.1 is fixed in Vs. 2.0. Previously, if the -v option
- was given on a copy operation to several disks, all copies after the first
- would be incomplete. This no longer is the case.
-
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- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-
-
- Many thanks and much credit to Leor Zolman of BDS Software for the C
- routines which make up the main body of the code for CSWEEP, and also for
- the documentation for the wildexp function which is paraphrased in the
- "Ambiguous File Names" section above.
-
- Copies of the source code for CSWEEP are available from the author for a
- nominal fee.