Short: Tiny directory/link/backup/copy program Author: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de Uploader: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de Version: 1.25 Type: disk/bakup Requires: OS 2.0 or better _____________________________________________________________________________ Purpose of this program: Copy one or multiple directories. This is absolutely nothing new, but unlike other copy tools, this one tries to copy links as well. If the link source and the link destination is copied, "SortCopy" will erase the link destination and re-create the link to the copy of the link source. This works for both, SoftLinks and HardLinks, as well as links to directories as long as the directory and the link to the directory is copied. For more information, as well as for the copyright, I'd like you to read the guide in this archive. _____________________________________________________________________________ WARNING: Even though "softlinks" are partially integrated into the OS, this does not mean that they are fully working! I found that even the latest FFS version, V43.19, has problems with them and may invalidate your HD. This is NOT a SortCopy problem at all. So "use at your own risk"! _____________________________________________________________________________ Version history: New in release 1.06: -Added the UPDATE command line option. See above for details. New in release 1.07: -SortCopy will now create a destination directory if it isn't already present. - The archive bit messages are now a bit shorter. New in release 1.20: Quite a lot: (Thus, the imense increase in the version number) - Added the PURGEBACKUP and PURGEONLY flags. - SortCopy can now copy files as well. - Links will be resolved across different wild card matches. This did not work before. - Rewrote major parts of this tool, code cleanup and minor bug fixes. - SortCopy is now "pure", i.e. can be made resident. New in release 1.21: - SortCopy handles now safely the situation where a file in the destination must be replaced by a directory from the source of the same name. - Introduced short-cuts for most command line options. - Wrote the guide. New in release 1.22: - SortCopy 1.21 showed a wrong error message in case the wildcard parsing failed. Fixed. New in release 1.23: - Fixed a bug in the directory scanner that could cause enforcer hits in case of a failure. - The destination directory is no longer created in case the source is not readable. New in release 1.24: - An obsolete directory gets deleted if a file of the same name is present in the source and the "OVERWRITE" keyword is given on the command line. Please note that SortCopy will NOT overwrite files by directories or directories by files if OVERWRITE is not given. - The meaning of the UPDATE option changed a bit. The file dates have no longer to be identical, but the backup must be older than the original to be replaced by a newer version. New in release 1.25: - Fixed a bug in the "OVERWRITE" keyword. ____________________________________________________________________________ Thomas, December 1998 ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 13016 6614 49.1% 05-Dec-98 20:13:22 +SortCopy 24032 8370 65.1% 05-Dec-98 20:14:42 +SortCopy.guide 537 285 46.9% 07-Feb-98 23:44:26 +SortCopy.guide.info 3244 1360 58.0% 05-Dec-98 20:15:06 +SortCopy.readme 856 377 55.9% 07-Feb-98 23:44:26 +SortCopy.readme.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 41685 17006 59.2% 07-Dec-98 19:31:34 5 files