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FILL.DOC
05/29/95
The FILL program is designed to help you move or copy files off a hard disk
while reducing the amount of wasted space on the destination disks. Internally,
it does this by sorting the file names so the largest files are moved/copied
first. It then moves or copies whatever files can fit on the floppy, skipping
any that can't. Features:
* Can either move or copy the files to the resulting location
* Can go onto to multiple diskettes as desired, beeping if desired when
the next disk is expected
* Can move the files in file name order or any of standard ordering
categories
* Can be used to split up files which are too big to fit on a single disk
* Can create a status/transaction file for you, showing what was copied/moved
* Can label the output diskette, providing some patterns like sequence numbers
and dates which it will fill in for you
* Some times useful for network transfers where standard MOVE command doesn't
always work
* Can review and delete if desired any files which are already in the
output destination (e.g. already on the output diskette)
* Can reformat the whole disk if files are going to drive A or B
* Can specify an input file ("@flistfile") which contains the files to be
copied.
Limits:
* Routine can only process the first 500 files found. It ignores the rest of
them.
* Routine can only review for deletion the first 200 files in the output
location.
* Routine does not provide any cool features to fix up destination drives
that have surface errors. If it encounters an error, it just beeps, gives
you an error message, and returns to DOS.
* Routine will not format the output diskette for you.
* Switching diskette densities is not recommended (e.g. intermixing 720K
diskettes with 1.44MB diskettes may cause errors)
* Routine's continual testing for new diskette (/CONTINUAL) only works if the
diskette was formatted using DOS 4.0 or later. That's the version that
puts volume sequence numbers on the diskettes. One way to insure this if
you're using the newer versions of DOS is to do a quick-reformat of your
floppies whenever you'd normally do a DEL A:*.*. I do this with a QDR.BAT
command that has the following:
FORMAT %1 /Q /U /V:Bruce
I then say "QDR A:" or "QDR B:". It invokes an unconditional quick format
and applies a volume label on the diskette (to avoid the prompt). If the
diskette does not have a sequence number, DOS tells you it can't be
quick-formatted and asks if it can do the full format instead.
Note on copying/moving files to multiple diskettes:
I didn't think this was confusing but a lot of people don't seem to understand
the technique of how files are moved to multiple diskettes.
Let's say you have six files:
A_FILE.ZIP 500K
B_FILE.ZIP 300K
C_FILE.ZIP 650K
D_FILE.ZIP 200K
E_FILE.ZIP 450K
F_FILE.ZIP 25K
You're moving these files to blank 1.2MB diskettes and you have the default
/MULTI and /ON settings. The program checks how much space is available on the
destination drive and comes back with 1.2MB.
It scans the input files and internally sorts them by descending size. It then
looks for the biggest file in the file list and comes back with C_FILE.ZIP at
650K. Will this file fit on the destination drive? Yes. It retains that
information, figures there is now 550K left on the output drive, and checks for
the second biggest file. A_FILE.ZIP is 500K. Will that also fit? Yes. So now
there's 50K left. The next biggest file is E_FILE.ZIP at 450K. Will that fit?
Nope. Check the next biggest. This continues until it reaches the file
F_FILE.ZIP which is only 25K. That's the biggest file that will fit in the
remaining 50K.
So it has three files to move. What order should it move them? You have /ON
set so it's going to move them in file name order. So it moves the following
files in the following order:
A_FILE.ZIP 500K
C_FILE.ZIP 650K
F_FILE.ZIP 25K
Next diskette. Same process. This time it processes the remaining files:
B_FILE.ZIP 300K
D_FILE.ZIP 200K
E_FILE.ZIP 450K
Specifying parameters:
Parameters for this program can be set in the following ways. The last setting
encountered always wins:
- Read from an *.INI file (see below),
- Through the use of an environmental variable (SET FILL=whatever), or
- From the command line (see "Syntax" below)
The FILL.INI file:
FILL will read a FILL.INI file if one is found. (You can specify a different
file name if desired.) The file is an ASCII text file that can be created
maintained by hand. The file can consist or one or more command line
parameters (only those that begin with a "/"; no multi-word ones), one statement
per line. For example:
/COPY
/CONTINUAL
The file can also contain comments which are blank lines or any line beginning
with:
; (semi-colon)
: (colon)
' (quote)
FILL looks for the initialization file in your default subdirectory first. It
then searches for it in the subdirectory where the executable was and then goes
through your DOS path.
Passing in "/-I" or "/INULL" skips loading the INI file. This saves some
execution time as the program does not need to search your path for the file.
Syntax:
FILL [ source-filespec | @flistfile ]
[ [ /TO ] dest-drive: | [ /TO ] dest-drive:\path\ ]
[ /MOVE | /COPY ] [ /PROMPT | /-PROMPT ] [ /Iinitfile | /-I ]
[ /OVERWRITE | /-OVERWRITE | /OVERSKIP | /OVERASK ]
[ /Ox | /O-x ] [ /Xfilespec ]... [ /WIPE | /-WIPE ] [ /MULTI | /SINGLE ]
[ /SPLIT ] [ /LETTER | /-LETTER ] [ /LABEL=label [ /START=n ] ]
[ /Fstatfile [ /S+ | /S- | S* ] [ /CONTINUAL ] [ /TIME | /-TIME ]
[ /BEEP | /-BEEP ] [ /FAKE ] [ /Q ] [ /? ]
where:
"source-filespec" is the file specification for what you want to move. You can
specify a drive and path and file wildcards if necessary (e.g. "C:\TEMP\*.BAT")
but otherwise it defaults to your default drive and directory and takes "*.*".
Note that the program cannot handle any request for more than 500 files at a
time.
"@flistfile" allows you to have a variety of file specifications saved in a text
file named "flistfile". You cannot have more than 50 file specifications in
this file (and you're still limited to the 500 files total). Each line should
consist of a file name with optional drive and path information. Blank lines
and lines beginning with semi-colons, colons, or quotes are ignored.
"dest-drive:" or "dest-drive:\path" (or "/TO dest-drive:" or "/TO
dest-drive:\path") tells the routine what drive or path to move the files to.
In many cases, the routine doesn't really care whether the source specification
precedes or follows the destination specification. If either parameter ends
with a colon (e.g. "A:") or slash (e.g. "C:\QB45\"), the routine will presume
that's the destination specification and the other one must be the source
specification. If either parameter contains a wildcard, the routine will
presume that's the source specification and the other one must be the
destination specification. So "FILL A: *.BAS" is the same as "FILL *.BAS A:".
The original default is "A:" (or "/TO A:").
"/MOVE" says to move the files instead of copying them. Initially defaults to
"/MOVE".
"/COPY" says to copy the files instead of moving them. Initially defaults to
"/MOVE".
"/PROMPT" says to prompt for each filename before moving it. Initially defaults
to "/-PROMPT".
"/-PROMPT" says to not prompt for each file. Initially defaults to "/-PROMPT".
"/Iinitfile" says to read an initialization file with the file name "initfile".
The file specification *must* contain a period. If no drive or path information
is specified, the program will search for initfile beginning in your default
subdirectory and then going throughout your DOS path. The use of an
initialization file is optional. Initially defaults to "/IFILL.INI".
"/-I" (or "/INULL") says to skip loading the initialization file.
"/OVERWRITE" says to overwrite same-named files in the destination path.
Initially defaults to "/OVERSKIP".
"/-OVERWRITE" says to abort if any same-named files are found in the destination
path. Initially defaults to "/OVERSKIP".
"/OVERSKIP" says to skip any file that already exists in the destination path.
The counts aren't accurate in this case. This is initially the default.
"/OVERASK" says to prompt if same-named files exist in the destination
directory. Initially defaults to "/OVERSKIP".
"/Ox" and "/O-x" allow you to specify the copy order for the files. "x" can be
one of the following:
N = file name
D = file date and time
S = file size
If you precede the "x" with a dash ("-"), the sort will be done in reverse
order. Note that this parameter does not determine which files are copied; it
only determines what order they are actually copied. Since the order that the
file tends to show up in a DOS DIR listing is based on creation order, this
sequence may be relevant to how the files ultimately show up. Initially
defaults to "/ON".
"/Xfilespec" says to exclude certain filespecs from being moved. You can
specify up to 10 exclusion parameters but each must have their own /Xfilespec
statement. For example, to move all files except those with a BAS extension,
you could say "FILL /X*.BAS".
"/WIPE" says that if the destination drive has files on it, prompt the user
for whether these files should be deleted or not. Six sub-options show up in
this case:
Do *NOT* delete the x file(s) Don't delete anything
List file(s) List the files but don't delete any of
them. The user will be reprompted for
these four options after pressing a key.
Select file(s) to delete List the files and allow the user to
select any to be deleted. Keys:
* Cursor keys -- move among list
* Space -- select that file
* Ctrl-Enter -- select all files
* Ctrl-bs -- deselect all files
* Enter -- process those tagged
* Esc -- skip processing
After pressing Enter, the selected files
will be deleted. You will then get the
standard four prompts again.
Delete all file(s) Delete all files in the specified
directory. Subdirectory files will not
be deleted.
Reformat the diskette If your output drive is either A or B,
the program will shell to DOS and execute
a "FORMAT d:" command. This (and the
next) sub-option will result in the
subdirectories being eliminated, something
which the prior sub-options don't do for
you.
Quick-reformat the diskette If your output drive is either A or B
and you're running under DOS 5.0 or higher,
the program will shell to DOS and execute
a "FORMAT d: /Q" command.
Initially defaults to "/-WIPE".
"/-WIPE" reverses /WIPE. Initially defaults to "/-WIPE".
"/MULTI" says to go to a second disk if all of the files can't fit on the first
diskette. Initially defaults to "/MULTI".
"/SINGLE" says process only one diskette at a time and to not prompt for the
next diskette once the first gets filled up. Initially defaults to "/MULTI".
"/SPLIT" says to split up large files which otherwise would not be able to fit
onto the output disk. For example, /SPLIT is useful when you have a 1.8MB file
that you're trying to copy or move to a 1.2MB or 1.44MB diskette. Files are
split only if an empty diskette in the output destination would not be able to
support the file; it will not split up a 800KB file just because the 1.2MB
output diskette only has 600KB free. /SPLIT must be used with a specific file
request; not a wildcarded one. Split files are given (by default) the file
extensions of .001, .002, etc (see /LETTER option below for an exception to
this) until all necessary splitting is accomplished. To put them back together
again, use the DOS COPY copy with the /B option. For example:
COPY TEST.001/B+TEST.002/B TEST.ZIP
"/LETTER" says that when /SPLIT is specified, use the first letter of the
original file extension when naming the split up file. For example, TEMP.ZIP
would become TEMP.Z01, TEMP.Z02, etc. This does not affect files which do not
get split. Initially defaults to "/-LETTER".
"/-LETTER" says that split up file names should be numeric only. TEMP.ZIP
becomes TEMP.001, TEMP.002, etc. This does not affect files which do not get
split. Initially defaults to "/-LETTER".
"/LABEL=label" specifies the volume label to be written to the output disk.
By default, the label is not changed. The label can be a quoted mixed-case
string. It can contain several replaceable lowercase only parameters: "mm" is
replaced with the two-digit month, "dd" is replaced with the two-digit day, "yy"
is replaced with the two-digit year, and "n" or "nn" or "nnn" is replaced by the
sequence number of the disk. All numeric fields are padded to the left with
zeroes as necessary. If the current date is November 7, 1993:
/LABEL="BKyymmdd nn"
will label the first first "BK931107 01", the second disk "BK931107 02" etc.
Note that labels can be no longer than 11 characters in length. All characters
except the replaceable parameters will be translated to uppercase characters.
"/START=n" specifies the first sequence number to use in place of "n", "nn", or
"nnn" in the /LABEL parameter. Defaults to "/START=1".
"/Fstatfile" specifies the name of a status file to be used. This status file
is a text file that reports on what's been processed by the program. If it
exists already, the status file is appended to, not overwritten. A sample of
some lines from the status file using the /S* option (which is not the default):
FILL results for /copy *.exe /ftest.txt /beep /wipe /s* /split
Being run on 11-07-1993 at 17:58:10
Label FileName Date Time Size Operation
TEST93 #01 AV.EXE 09/29/93 00:50:58 70,282 SKIP
TEST93 #01 BC.EXE 08/19/92 23:59:00 150,562 SKIP
TEST93 #01 BFIND.EXE 08/02/93 23:07:08 60,016 SKIP
TEST93 #01 VBDOS.EXE 08/19/92 23:59:00 555,520 COPY
BRUCE AV.EXE 09/29/93 00:50:58 70,282 SKIP
BRUCE BC.EXE 08/19/92 23:59:00 150,562 SKIP
BRUCE BFIND.EXE 08/02/93 23:07:08 60,016 SKIP
"/S+" specifies that the only files to be written to the status file are those
files that actually get copied/moved. This is the default.
"/S-" specifies that the only files to be written to the status file are those
files that did not get copied/moved. Since the skipping is determination is
done with each disk, the status file may show the same file name as "SKIP" over
and over again.
"/S*" specifies that the status report should contain all files copied/moved as
well as skipped. This can be a huge report.
"/CONTINUAL" is used if you want the routine to continually check your floppy
drive to see when a new diskette has been put in and continue once it recognizes
this has happened. The only time you'd have to press a key is if you want to
stop processing diskettes (in which case you'd press Escape). This option is
only available if you're using DOS 4.0 or higher and only works for disks that
have been formatted using DOS 4.0 or higher (it uses the serial number on the
disk in order to determine that the disk has been replaced).
"/TIME" says to show how much time it took for the transfers, showing you
a bytes copied/moved per second.
"/-TIME" says to skip the bytes per second information. This is initially
the default.
"/BEEP" says to beep once the routine is done doing its thing (a high tone
followed by a low one). It will also beep whenever it's time to stick in a new
diskette (a low tone followed by a high one). Initially defaults to "/BEEP".
"/-BEEP" says to not beep upon completion. Initially defaults to "/-BEEP".
"/FAKE" turns off the actual copying of files. It basically puts you into
simulation mode so you can see what it would do, how many disks it would take,
et cetera.
"/Q" turns off the file-by-file status reporting.
"/?" or "/HELP" or "HELP" shows you the syntax for the command.
Return codes:
FILL returns the following ERRORLEVEL codes:
0 = no problems, all files copied
1 = no problems, but some files skipped since /-MULTI
250 = too many entries in @flistfile file
251 = couldn't find @flistfile file
252 = had DOS errors copying/moving the files (bad sectors found)
253 = had problems copying/moving the files
254 = no files found to copy/move
255 = syntax problems, or /? requested
Author:
This program was written by Bruce Guthrie of Wayne Software. It is free for use
and redistribution provided relevant documentation is kept with the program, no
changes are made to the program or documentation, and it is not bundled with
commercial programs or charged for separately. People who need to bundle it in
for-sale packages must pay a $50 registration fee to "Wayne Software" at the
following address.
Additional information about this and other Wayne Software programs can be found
in the file BRUCEymm.DOC which should be included in the original ZIP file.
("ymm" is replaced by the last digit of the year and the two digit month of the
release. BRUCE312.DOC came out in December 1993. This same naming convention
is used in naming the ZIP file that this program was included in.) Comments and
suggestions can also be sent to:
Bruce Guthrie
Wayne Software
113 Sheffield St.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
fax: (301) 588-8986
See BRUCEymm.DOC file for additional contact information.
Foreign users: Please provide an Internet e-mail address in all correspondence.