STARTING THE PROGRAM

BackupST can be started by double clicking on the application from the desktop, and typing the parameters in the presented box.

: Note:
BackupST is NOT case sensitive; this because the OS converts all input from the desktop to uppercase before passing it to the application.

After execution BackupST will wait for a keypress before it returns to the desktop. BackupST will also work from a command interpretator like the Craft shell. If you set the environment variable

BACKUPSTPAUSE=NO

BackupST wil not wait for a keypress after execution. The program can also be started by the GEM interface program bfront. This document does NOT describe the bfront program.