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WWIV backup 1.0 ■ 1992 Preston Brown AKA Ellrond
WWIV backup is a utility to facilitate painless, efficient backups of your
WWIV source code files. If you are like most people (including me) you wish
that you had some way to automate this other than those CLUMSY batch files.
well, NOW YOU CAN! WWIV backup takes care of figuring out which source files
that you have edited/modified since your last backup, and it only adds those
when it makes a new one. I addition to doing this, which is obviously more
efficient then making a new one every time, WWIV backup keeps 3 sets of
source code backups in there own directory, and updates them automatically.
Feel free to delete any set of backups at any time, but remember - you want
all the protection you can have. If you put in a screwy mod and then need
to go back to an older source version, it is very nice to be able to go back
3 source code backups.
The only option (command line) to pass to WWIV backup is a '?' to get a help
file somewhat like this one. WWIV backup will make a directory called BACKUPS
off of your source code directory the first time it is run if it is not already
there. It will then take care of itself. WWIV backup zips up ALL the changed
files in your source code directory that have been changed since the last
backup. If for some reason you have not changed many files, but need to make
a fresh backup and you have no backup files already in the BACKUPS directory,
simply turn the ARCHIVE attribute on to all the files using the MS-DOS command
ATTRIB. (archive attribute is 'A'). One more thing. I made WWIV backup
ask PKZIP to ask for a comment. In this line, you can type the mods that
you have made in this backup version, or anything that you want. Very handy.
Which brings me to that one other requirement. You must have PKZIP somewhere
on your drive, but it doesn't have to be in the path. That helps, though.
So, I whipped this thing up over a period of a couple of months, basically
for myself. But, I figured that there would be sufficient interest in it
that other people would like a copy. So, like all the other software that
I have released to date, it's free. OF COURSE. The only thing that I do
ask (with all my stuff) is that you send me some email through one of the
various network addresses that I mention and tell me you use my stuff. When
you do this, then you get on my subscriber list, and you will recieve update
information AUTOMATICALLY for all my software.
If you have any questions about anything, feel free to write as well. My
addresses follow:
#3@9987 WWIVnet (Ellrond)
#2#9191 Virtualnet (Ellrond)
or VIA US Mail:
Preston Brown
1110 Arbor Rd.
Winston-Salem, NC 27104
Good luck with your WWIV BBS system!
Ellrond, April 27th, 1992