README.md

THIS TAPE CONTAINS TWO UTILITY PROGRAMS/COMMAND FILES WHICH WE HAVE
FOUND EXTREMELY USEFUL. THE FIRST IS CALLED "BAK" AND PROVIDES AN
INCREMENTAL BACKUP FACILITY. THIS MEANS THAT IT BACKS UP FILES ON
MAG TAPE, SAVES THE DATE AND TIME THE BACKUP OCCURS. THEN THE NEXT
TIME IT BACKS UP FILES, IT ONLY BACKS UP FILES WHICH WERE CREATED
SINCE THE LAST BACCKUP WAS RUN. THE FULL DESCRIPTION AND HOW TO USE
IT IS IN "BAKUP.MAC". THIS IS A PRIVILEGED TASK AND MUST BE BUILT
WITH EACH EXECUTIVE.

THE SECOND UTILITY IS REALLY A TECO COMMAND FILE. IT PROVIDES THE
CAPABILITY TO SEARCH FOR AN ARBITRARY CHARACTER STRING IN THE FILES
SPECIFIED BY THE USER, AND ALLOWS WILDCARD ENTRIES (E.G. *.FTN OR
[*,*]*.MAC OR DK?:[*,*]*.CMD). ALSO, IT GIVES THE OPERATOR THE
OPTION OF REPLACING THE SEARCH STRING WITH ANOTHER STRING. WHEN THIS
OPTION IS SELECTED, THE OPERATOR IS QUERIED EVERY TIME THE STRING
IS FOUND IF HE WANTS TO REPLACE THE STRING.

A MODIFICATION WAS MADE IN TECO (MUNGE, THAT IS) TO USE THE "%"
CHARACTER AS A SEPERATOR BETWEEN THE COMMAND FILE NAME AND THE ARGUMENT.
THIS WAS NECESSARY SINCE THE NORMAL SEPERATOR (",") IS USED IN
THE FILE SPECIFICATION.