BACKUP/ARCHIVE ALIASES by Jim Lindholm 2/13/88 After backing up your files several times, have you ever found that you had the same file on several different disks or could not "remember" which disk a particular file was on so you could put its natural update on the same disk or even overwrite the outdated one? It's one thing to be even close to having the right disk, but when you are using floppies that only hold 126k it can become ridiculous. Hence, I created the following aliases. Their success is primarily responsible to Steve Cohen for creating W20 and to Jay Sage and Rob Wood for updating the wildcard shell to W21 and W22 successively. I chose AC for most of my work because it tells me when a floppy disk is full and allows me to insert another and continue my backup process. I am not fond of the archive bit being set on destination file, but what can you do when the author does not see it that way. Alas, I use SFA to turn it off when I have completed work on a floppy. Also, I have modified W22 to display inverse in the header (w22x in aliases) and have included an inverse ECHO display in my aliases for aesthetic purposes. The first alias is simply to move files with the archive bit off into a user area named BACKUP:. I chose ACOPY because I am able to control the destination archive bit. If I want to move non- archived files from all user areas into BACKUP:, I would use AC, then SFA to set up my archiving process to FLOPPY1:. BAK a7:acopy17 backup:=*.* /no The next two aliases basically log onto my floppy disk named FLOPPY1:, reads the first file name, then checks to see if it is waiting to be transfered to the floppy from the BACKUP area. If it is, it moves it. If it is not, the alias moves to the next floppy filename and repeats the process. When all files on the floppy is checked, I put in another floppy and repeat. ARC cls;e0:;a15:w22x archive *.*;a15:sfa *.* /-arc;$d0$u0: ARCHIVE if ex e0:$1;a15:ac44 floppy1:=backup:$1 /aeo;a15:sak /p4;cls;echo ers. 2.2 installed> ;else;fi Optionally, for those of you that like ACOPY ARK cls;e0:;a15:w22x arch *.*;a15:sfa *.* /-arc;$d0$u0: ARCH if ex e0:$1;a7:acopy17 floppy1:=backup:$1 /mo;a15:sak /p4;cls;echo ers. 2.2 installed> ;else;fi The final alias simply takes the remaining files from BACKUP: and moves them to a FLOPPY1:. BACKUP a15:ac44 floppy1:=backup:*.* /ae;a15:sfa e0:*.* /-arc Enjoy these if they make any sense to you. Any comments can be left on Jay Sage's or Al Hawley's Z-Nodes and of course if you can get through to Z-Node Central... Jim