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Short: Tiny directory/link/backup/copy program
Author: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de
Uploader: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de
Version: 1.22
Type: disk/bakup
Requires: OS 2.0 or better
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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.
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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"!
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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.
____________________________________________________________________________
Thomas,
February 1998
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
12584 6408 49.0% 21-Mar-98 22:54:20 +SortCopy
22400 7860 64.9% 21-Mar-98 22:53:40 +SortCopy.guide
537 285 46.9% 07-Feb-98 23:44:26 +SortCopy.guide.info
2453 1075 56.1% 21-Mar-98 22:54:10 +SortCopy.readme
856 377 55.9% 07-Feb-98 23:44:26 +SortCopy.readme.info
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
38830 16005 58.7% 02-Apr-98 22:23:24 5 files