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                                    BU.COM                                    

             Size (recs) CRC   Version    Author/Latest Issue      Disk
               7k (52)   920E  1.7        Carson Wilson 4/90       Z3COM2


  1- Usage  2- Configuration  3- Notes                                        


   BU.COM is a simple, but effective hard disk backup utility.  It will backup
most hard disk systems without any need for a  modification of the .ASM source
code (although it has been provided if you need to change).   Requires  a  Z80
and any CP/M revision since CP/M 2.2.  DateStamper/ZSDOS support.

   Original by Kim Levitt (12/08/84), based on NEWBACK by G. Young.
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 Usage - 1/4 

   When you run BU,  it  will  ask  you first which drives you wish to backup.
Specify these altogether with no spaces, commas or other separating characters
as in: "ABC".   It will then ask for the floppy drive to  backup to.   Specify
just the drive letter with no colon on the end as in:  "D".   After displaying
this information, you will be asked to verify it before continuing.

   Next you will be asked if you wish all user areas backed up.  Answer 'Y' if
you wish user areas 0-31 automatically scanned.   If you specify 'N', you will
only scan the user area you are currently in.

   The  following  question  concerns  whether or not you  wish files with the
archive attribute (T3) set (the archive file attribute bit not supported under
CP/M 2.2) to be skipped during backup.   This  feature can be used so that you
will only backup new files (ones that haven't had the T3 bit set by BU or some
other utility or by a replacement  BDOS such as  ZRDOS or  P2DOS which support
the archive attribute).  The next prompt asks whether you want the archive bit
set after backup  (normally yes,  but you may not want to set the bit for some
reason.)

 Usage - 2/4 

   Next,  BU will ask if you wish to  supress  printer  output.  If you answer
'N', you must have a printer on line or things will freeze up.

   Finally,  unless DateStamper is  running,  you are prompted for the current
date which you must enter in using the "MM/DD/YY" format.   If your system has
a realtime clock, you may be able to  write a  routine to get the date  and/or
time for display on the  reports  without  prompting  you,  but  this requires
modification of the source code,  of course.   Adding  DateStamper is  easier,
and will do this and more.   However,  the  CLOCK  equate  and  code  has been
retained in source if you INSIST on this nonsense...

   After these preliminary  questions,  the hard disk directories are scanned,
duplicates are eliminated from the list,  a report listing sorted by disk/user
is printed out and then the user is  asked  whether or not to begin the backup
process.   Answer  'Y'  to continue and then you will be prompted to enter the
first floppy volume for backup and enter a 3 character volume ID.   The backup
process begins and you will be prompted to change diskettes whenever the disks
fill up and/or the hard disk being backed up changes  (to facilitate restoring
files it is  recommended  that  different  drives  be  backed  up  on separate
floppies).

 Usage - 3/4 

   As each file is backed up,  its filename is  printed on the printer (you DO
NOT have to have a  printer  on-line  to  use this program  -  just be sure to
answer 'Y' to the supress printer output question) as part of a report listing
files backed up by diskette.

   At each prompt for a new diskette,  you can enter "END" to abort the backup
process.  Provided you are skipping files with the archive bit set and setting
the archive attribute after backup,  you should be able to resume backup later
and skip all the files you previously backed up.   Before beginning a complete
disk backup session, you can either just specify that archive files are NOT to
be skipped or you can clear the archive  bit on all the files you will want to
backup before running BU  (use  NSWP for this purpose).   Note that if you are
not skipping archive files,  you  will  not be  able  to  resume  backup after
aborting, so a  "noskip"  backup has to be done  all at once.   (I do a weekly
"noskip" backup to get EVERYTHING and  a daily or so "skip" backup to get only
the new stuff..)

 Usage - 4/4 

   After all files selected for backup have been copied to disk, BU will auto-
matically terminate.

   NOTE: BU will skip files which are too  large to be backed up onto a single
floppy.  Unlike some other  backup  programs,  this is strictly file-oriented,
which leaves you large-file people  without  backup via  this program, but the
advantage is that it is easy to restore files without doing a complete restore
of EVERYTHING like some other PD hard disk backup programs do.  There are file
splitting utilities that could be used to get around this limitation.
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 Configuration - 1/2 

   Unless you have installed  BU  for  ZCPR3  and  have  a TERMCAPS definition
loaded, location 10BH in the .COM file contains a ten byte  area that contains
your terminal's clear screen control code or  escape  sequence,  if your clear
screen/home cursor is  something  other than a Ctrl-Z (1AH) then you will have
to patch this.   Location 11EH has the  number of  filenames which you wish to
have excluded from backup.   BU is  currently  configured  to skip 9 different
filenames which are stored in memory starting at location 11FH:

          !!!TIME&.DAT   - DateStamper stamp file
          !!BG    .SWP   - BackGrounder swap file
          ????????.PRN   - Listing files
          ????????.HEX   - Intermediate hex files
          ????????.SYM   - Symbol files
          ????????.BAK   - Backup files
          ????????.$?$   - Scratch files
          ????????.TMP   - Temporary files
          [??????].???   - Bad block files

 Configuration - 2/2 

   6 blanks are provided for extension of the  excluded  filenames.  These may
be entered with a debugger.   Be sure to  change the  count at 11EH if you add
any filenames!
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 BU Notes - 1/6 

   a. Version 1.7 updates:
      - Minor bug fix.

   b. Version 1.6 updates:
      - Added CP/M Plus capability:
      - Gets CP/M Plus free space.
      - User 15 is maximum under CP/M Plus.
      - Gets true disk space remaining under ANY version of CP/M.
      - Detects lack of DateStamper clock (was assuming clock present).
      - Multi-sector i/o
      - Advanced error handling
      - Fixed disk erase routine (CP/M+ aborts on wildcard SFA).
      - Now sets destination file attributes only if there were attributes
        other than Archive in the source file for greater throughput.
      - Several prompts now have default values - hit RETURN for the displayed
        default.
      - Now uses DSLIB to read CP/M Plus/DateStamper/ZSDOS clock.
      - Various minor bugs fixed and performance improved; now uses Z80
        opcodes.

 BU Notes - 2/6 

      - Now prints  "read"  and  "write"  messages  only ONCE for each buffer-
        full, rather than for each record read.
      - Now resets ANY output drive,  including  ones  with "fixed" disks that
        are actually removable, such as the Konica 10-meg. floppy.

   d. Version 1.3-1.5 updates:
      - The major changes are support  for  ZCPR3  (BU15 installs  as  a ZCPR3
        utility using Z3INS) and Plu*Perfect's DateStamper.   BU15  still runs
        correctly on non ZCPR3 systems and systems without DateStamper, and is
        still  coded  in  8080  assembly  language.   Jay  Sage's  DateStamper
        routines from  PPIP15  were used as the basis for the DateStamper code
        (why re-invent the wheel?).

      - If BU15 is running under ZCPR3, the wheel byte is checked and BU exits
        immediately if the user is not  wheel  (user is  informed  why  he was
        kicked out).   If there is a valid clear screen string in TERMCAPS, it
        will be used, otherwise the string at 10BH is used.

 BU Notes - 3/6 

      - If DateStamper is found, the user is not prompted for backup date.  If
        a !!!TIME&DAT file is found on the backup  disk,  each file's original
        datestamps will be retained on the backup.  If DateStamper is running,
        a (Date OK) message will be  printed  after  each file is copied.  The
        floppy erase routine was  changed  so  that  !!!TIME&DAT  will  not be
        erased.   This has the  unfortunate  side  effect  of slowing down the
        erase, so dots are now  printed  while the erase routine is running in
        user 0 just to re-assure the operator that the program has not crashed
        and burned.   The slower erase is limited to  user 0,  while all other
        user areas continue to use the faster  wildcard  attribute  clear  and
        erase.   If BU15 is assembled without DateStamper support,  the faster
        erase method is used in all user areas.

      - In line with these  additions,  the  skip  file  section  has changed.
        Instead of just checking an extent,  an  entire filename (which can be
        ambiguous) is  specified.   This  allows  for  better  selectivity  in
        skipped files.

 BU Notes - 4/6 

      - The hard coding for maximum user was removed and made an equate in the
        source code.   The .COM file has  MAXUSR  set to 31.   Note  that when
        running under ZCPR3,  BU15 does not  respect  what ZCPR calls MAXUSER.
        Due to the nature of this utility,  it seemed foolish to me to respect
        this value.

      - The archive bit was changed  from the F4 bit to T3  for  compatibility
        with ZRDOS, P2DOS, and other  programs that  use the CP/M plus archive
        bit.

      - A question was added to the startup  dialogue to  allow printer output
        to be suppressed.

      - The .COM  file has the  printer initialization enabled,  but all bytes
        are set to 0.  The sequence for your printer can be patched in using a
        debugger.   The  printer  initialization  string is  8  bytes long and
        starts at 114H.   RBYANC is set false, and 80 col, 66 lines/page print
        format is selected.

      - Updated text in the body of the document to reflect BU15 as it stands.

 BU Notes - 5/6 

   e. Version 1.2-1.2a updates (Greg Teater):
      - Installed top-of-forms for  printer  where needed.   Added  left print
        margin to allow copy to  be  put in notebook (very handy).   If RBYANC
        support chosen, then second filename added to output disk,
        '--BACKUP.nnn' where 'nnn' is the volume ID asked during BACKUP.  This
        will avoid  using  the  first  file  name  added  '+YYMMDDy.nnn' where
        YY=year, MM=month, DD=day,  YY=output drive letter, and nnn=volume ID.
        RBYANC does not include a  volume  delete feature.   If  you  use  the
        volume date file  as  volume label,  the  MAST.CAT  will  fill up very
        quickly.  The second volume label is always the same, therefore no new
        volumes are built each time the BACKUP floppies are added to catalog.

      - BU12A.COM:  Normal  Printing  (66 lines/page,  80 columns).  No escape
        sequences sent to printer.  Most generic version.

      - The printer set routine can  be  easily  modified  for other printers.
        The sequences  are  close  to  the  top of BU.ASM.  Be sure to set the
        'PRNTSET' flag to 'YES' and enter the code at 'SETPRINTER' label.

 BU Notes - 6/6 

   f. Version 1.1 updates (B. G. Eiben):
      - Changed BU to keep file-attributes when moving files to floppy - makes
        it easier to use NSWEEP to restore.
      - Changed ERASE algorithm to allow to wipe files with attributes.
      - Changed SPACE-routine and added  "k left" output to screen to know how
        long the specific floppy might last.
      - Added some more "excluded" file-types and VT100 as "default terminal".