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- CSAP - Sort And Pack Directories
- Version: 2.01 Date: June 4, 1987
- Author: Don A. Williams
-
- ********************* N O T I C E *********************
- * Contrary to the current trend in MS-DOS software *
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- * copyrighted (with the exception of the runtime *
- * library from Datalight C)! The program, in whole *
- * or in part, may be used freely in any fashion or *
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- ********************************************************
-
-
- CSAP is a program to sort PC/MS-DOS directories in any of three
- orders and to write out the sorted directory. It is a
- replacement for my earlier SAP which was written in assembly
- language and had a number of nasty bugs! CSAP, from version 2.02 |
- up, supports all of the options provided by SAP 3.01, however, |
- the manner of specification and the deafaults are different. |
-
- Changes between this documentation and prior versions will be |
- indicated by 'change bars', i.e. the character '|' in the right |
- margin. |
-
- There is a major exception to the sort. An MS-DOS system disk |
- contains two files that MUST be the FIRST two files in the root |
- directory. These files contain MSDOS itself and the BIOS for the |
- system. Unfortunately, there is no sure way to distinguish these |
- files from any other files although usually they have the System |
- and/or Hidden attributes and their Extension is 'SYS'. If either |
- of the first two files in the root directory have the System and |
- Hidden attributes, CSAP will assume that the disk is a system |
- disk and will exclude the first two files from the sort. |
-
-
- USAGE
-
- CSAP [options] [directory_name]
- or
- CSAP [directory_name] [options]
-
- Both parameters are optional and, if neither is specified, CSAP
- will sort the current directory and all elements in the directory
- tree below it in ascending order on the "Name" field. As did
- SAP, CSAP will sort all subdirectory entry so that they fall
- ahead of any file entries. The directory_name parameter, if
- supplied, specifies to CSAP the directory with which to start the
- sort. Unless otherwise instructed, CSAP will sort that directory
- and all directories below it in the directory hierarchy.
-
- If no disk is specified in the path name, CSAP will work on the |
- 'current' or 'default' disk, the disk shown in the MS-DOS prompt. |
- If the first character of the path name, after the optional disk |
- specification, is a '\', CSAP will assume that the path starts at |
- the root directory. If the path name does not begin with a '\', |
- SAP will assume that the path starts at the 'current' directory |
- and will prefix the specified path name with that of the current |
- directory before using it. |
-
- The options provide the user with a means of controlling the sort
- order. They are as follows:
-
- -N Sort on entry Name and Extension(the default). |
- -E Sort on entry Extension then Name. |
- -D Sort on entry Date/Time.
- -S Sort on entry Size.
- -I Invert the sort order, i.e sort in descending
- order.
- -L Sort only one level of the hierarchy. |
- -R Report the number of removed "deleted"entries and |
- the sector addresses of the directory. |
- -P Do not remove "deleted" entries [reversed from SAP]. |
-
- The case and order of the options is not important and they can
- be specified individually, i.e.
-
- CSAP -d -i
-
- or combined, i.e.
-
- CSAP -di
-
-
- EXAMPLES:
-
- Following are some simple examples of the use of CSAP:
-
- 1.zzA>CSAP
-
- This form of the CSAP command (with no command line
- parameters) will sort the "current" directory of the
- "current" or "default" disk (disk A in this example)
- and all directories below it in the hierarchy. The
- directories will be sorted in name order and
- "deleted" entries will be removed.
-
- 2. A>CSAP -V
-
- This form of the CSAP command is the same as in 1.
- except that CSAP will pause for user confirmation
- before sorting each directory.
-
- 3. A>CSAP \
-
- This form of the CSAP command will sort the "Root"
- directory of the "Current" disk, in ths example, A:\.
- All directories on disk A would be sorted.
-
- 4. A> CSAP \ -L
-
- This form would, again, sort the "Root" directory of
- disk A but the "-L" option would limit the sorting to
- just the "Root".
-
- 5. A>CSAP \ -R
-
- This form of the CSAP would sort all directories on
- disk A and show, for each directory, the relative
- sectors occupied by the directory and the number of
- "erased" entries removed.
-
- 6. A>CSAP \ -DR
-
- This form of the CSAP command will, again, sort all
- of the directories on disk A but this time in
- Date/Time order. The "R" option would, agan, cause
- the relative sectors occupied by each directory and
- the number of entries removed to be displayed.
-
-