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- UPDATE Command UpDate v2.4 /compiled 9 May 86
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- Purpose: Copy new or freshly changed/added files from any (hard/floppy/RAMdsk)
- sources to any (hard/floppy) destinations
-
- Table of UpDate variables:
- Function Implementation
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- Current Date/Time DOS
- Alter Last Backup Date and Time Runtime
- Directory to Copy [Path specification] PATHS.CNF
- Filename to Copy [Path specification] PATHS.CNF
- Filename to Skip (Omit-Copy) [ &S Path spec] PATHS.CNF
- Directory to Copy to Floppies Only [ &F Path spec] PATHS.CNF
- Directory to Copy to Hard-Disk Only [ &H Path spec] PATHS.CNF
- Copy Old-Date Files UPDATE N
- Hard Disk Only UpDate All Files Runtime/LASTDATE.CNF
- Floppy Only UpDates All Files Runtime/LASTDATE.CNF
- Floppy AND Hard UpDates All Files Runtime/LASTDATE.CNF
- Optional Copy/Skip Control [Universal/Selective mode] Runtime/LASTDATE.CNF
- Delete File [Selective mode only] Runtime
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- UpDate System Filenames (ARCed on this diskette):
- UPDATE.BAT Program
- UP.EXE Program
- TERSE.DOC Documentation
- PROLIX.DOC Documentation
- Setup Files (interactively Installed/Created by <UpDate+User>):
- PATHS.CNF List [Sub]Dirs and/or Filenames to UpDate
- LASTDATE.CNF Record Last Execution Time & Setup Parameters
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-
- Installation Procedure:
- 1) Locate the two UpDate program files (UPDATE.BAT, UP.EXE) together in any
- (sub)directory
- 2) Run (from DOS) command UPDATE T to create PATHS.CNF
- 3) Specify each source drive and dir [+ optional filenames] to monitor
- PATHS.CNF source spec usage:
- d:\[path][filename.ext] [&options]
- options: &F - copy specified directory to floppy backups only
- &H - copy specified directory to hard backups only
- &S - skip specified filename (do NOT copy)
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- Example PATH.CNF Specs:
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- C:\ - monitor all root dir files
- C:\TEXTS - monitor all \TEXTS subdirectory files
- C:\TEXTS &F but copy only to floppy backup diskettes
- C:\TEXTS\*.D?C - monitor all DOC/DQC/D?C extensions
- C:\TEXTS\DULL.DOC &S but skip file DULL.DOC
- N.B. - NO wildcards (?.*) with &S skip-file option
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- 4) REQUIRED test, DOS command UPDATE T (Reorganizes PATHS.CNF spec file)
- [5a) Run command UPDATE N, to copy newly-added files of older date]
- 5) Run, from DOS, command UPDATE (Initial run creates a LASTDATE.CNF
- record of destination drive + directory parameters, plus present date:
- a) Floppy destination drive-letter D
- b) Hard destination drive-letter D
- c)*Destination directory organization: M*= Mirror image [other disk]
- P*= Parallel [same disk]
- R*= Root dir only
- (* see User's Manual, PROLIX.DOC, p. 17ff)
- d) Universal or Selective copy mode: U = copy all
- S = copy/skip/delete at
- runtime
- e) Present date: integers DDMMYY
- f) Present 24-hour time: integers HHMM
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