Date   : Fri, 13 Dec 1991 00:08:17 GMT
From   : elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!unixhub!unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU!ralph@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ralph Becker-Szendy)
Subject: File copy utility with archive bit and datestamp ?

Does anyone know a cp/m utility similar to NewSweep, Wash or B29 which
- Knows about the archive bit (copy only files which have been 
  modified, and set the archive status bit after copying), and
- Knows about Novados (or SuperBDOS or cp/m+ or ...) style datestamps,
  and can propagate the datestamp from the source to the destination
  file when copying, and
- works with NovaDOS (or SuperBDOS or Z80DOS), which are a set of 
  enhanced BDOS replacements ?
A user interface as nifty as NewSweep, Wash or B29 is not required.

The use of such a utility is obvious: Backup, including incremental
backup.  The newer BDOSes already support datestamping and the archive
bit, so all the information is there. There is a program called
ARCOPY21 in the SIMTEL archive, which can do copying depending on the
archive bit, but it doesn't reset the archive bit on the source of the
copy, nor does it know about datestamps. Part of the problem could
probably solved with ZEX scripts, but again that doesn't help with the
datestamps.

Any pointers ? I do not use cp/m+ (aka cp/m 3.0), and I rarely use
ZCPR3.4 (aka NZ-COM), so I would prefer a tool which functions under
cp/m 2.2 with such an enhanced BDOS.

-- 
Ralph Becker-Szendy                          RALPH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center                      RALPH@SLACVM.BITNET
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