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CWEEP version 1.30 File maniulation utility for MS-DOS 29-June-1984 CWEEP V1.30 Copyright (c) 1984 by Gary M. Berg 5850 Duncraig Dr., Apt. 806 Dayton, OH 45426 CIS 70106, 1624 This software is released to the public domain and may be freely reproduced and distributed as long as such is not for gain. The author provides to warranty of fitness or accuracy of the software. CWEEP was inspired by the CP/M utility SWEEP. CWEEP provides the same capabilities to a Z-DOS/MS-DOS system user which SWEEP provides to the CP/M user. This program does not attempt to provide all of the capabilities which the NEWSWEEP programs do, but provides some additional extensions to provide capabilties which I have found useful. The following is an alphabetic list of the commands provided in CWEEP: sp/cr Advance to the next file in the list. A Again. Retag all files which display a "#" in the tag field. Used for copying a set of files to more than one disk, or for deleting a set from a disk after they have been copied elsewhere. B Back up to previous file in list. C Copy a single file to another dirve. Asks for destination drive. Form is d[:[v]]; specifying "v" will cause the copy to be verified. Examples: b Copy to drive B: b: Same as above b:v Copy file to drive B:, and verify the copy afterward by re-reading the file and comparing the resulting CRC with the CRC computed when the file was read from the source disk. In all cases the date/time will be correctly copied to the output file. This will NOT support MS-DOS 2.0 subdirectory names. Page -1- CWEEP version 1.30 File maniulation utility for MS-DOS 29-June-1984 -C Copy file to another name. User must specify a complete output file name. Asks for verify or not. D Delete an individual file. Asks for Y/N to confirm. E Erase all tagged or untagged files. Optional file by file confirmation is available. This option is more robust than the corresponding option is SWEEP V3.8; the user must specify [T]agged or [U]ntagged. Otherwise, the input is ignored. F Free space on a drive. Note that this is a different letter than in SWEEP. Will give correct results for both Z-DOS 1.1 and MS-DOS 2.x. H Hexidecimal dump of file to screen. -H Hex dump of file to screen; pauses at the end of each 256 byte segment. +H Hex dump of file to screen and printer. I Information. Prints size in bytes and time for file, since there was insufficient space on regular prompt line to display this information. J Jump to a file in the list. Works if list is ordered by file name or extension. Examples: S Jump to first "S" or extension blank. A.BAT Jumps to "A"'s or ".BAT" extensions. Jump positions you after the matching files if the list is sorted in inverse order. L Log in new drive and files. Can specify a wildcard to match or just a drive. M Mass copy of tagged files to a specified drive. Drive is specified the same way as for copy command, and may include the verify option. -O Output a list of tagged files to a specified disk file name. May specify "CON" or "PRN" for name; will query if the output file should be deleted if it already exists. +O Output a list of untagged files the same as "-O". Page -2- CWEEP version 1.30 File maniulation utility for MS-DOS 29-June-1984 P Protected mass copy of tagged files. Same as "M" but will ask if a file should be deleted if it exists on the output drive. -Q Provide a list of tagged files to screen. +Q Provide a list of untagged files to screen. R Rename a file. Enter new name. If new name is "*", will ask for an input wildcard, and a new wildcard for renaming those files, as SWEEP does. S Sort the directory listing. Can sort by name, ext/name, size, and date. Lead in with "-" to sort by inverse of whatever. Date is great for copying off what you last changed. T Tag a file. Marks with "*" in list. U Untag a file. Removes "*" from list. V View a file to screen. We use Spellbinder for out wordprocessor, so the view option throws away all line feeds, translate <CR> and <VTAB> to a <CR><LF> when displaying on the screen. Normally, this causes no problem with text files. The display can be paused by pressing any key except <ESC> or <CR>; those terminate the view command. The same choice of keys can be used to restart the display. -V View as above, but pause every 22 <CR>'s. +V View to screen and printer. W Tag all files matching a wildcard name.ext. -W Tag all files not matching a wildcard name.ext. Z Change an MS-DOS 2.x subdirectory name. When I saw how simple it was to emulate a CHDIR command, I put it in. Note that you can only be in one subdirectory at a time on any given drive, and that there is no way to copy from one subdir to another in this version. ? or / Print help list. Re-prints the informational message printed by CWEEP at startup. If preceeded by a "-" or "+", will print a help message for all command which are prefxed in that manner. As an interesting note, control-P and control-N work to toggle printer echo on/off, since this program uses the BDOS Page -3- CWEEP version 1.30 File maniulation utility for MS-DOS 29-June-1984 calls to do all I/O to the keyboard. This can be disconcerting if you aren't expecting it. It also means you can get a listing of exactly what you did, and get crude directory listings sorted by all of the list sort orders. I wrote CWEEP because in our company we were unable to consider moving our users from CP/M to Z-DOS without some such capability. It is written in CI C-86, but does not use in of the CI I/O subroutines. The disk I/O routines came from an "unknown" user on the Programmer's SIG [72155,1402], and the CRC routine is the one used in YAM. CWEEP will not support I/O re-direction except as provided directly by MS-DOS 2.0 for the BDOS calls. Obviously, it can be confusing to try and write redirection files for a program which is so terminal interactive. Page -4- XA 6: