(Backup and Restore Utility with Consolidation and Enhancement)
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by (coincidentally): BRUCE d. sidlinger
software science/software art
7626 callaghan 3006
san antonio tx 78229
512/344-7921
decus 113380
submitted by: Bruce D. Sidlinger
Vice President - Res. & Eng.
Alcor Inc.
10130 Jones-Maltsberger
San Antonio TX 78284
512/349-3771
DECUS 173312
This is submitted as both a useful utility program and as a
demonstration of what can be done with the INDirect command file
processor included with RT-11 Version 5.
BRUCE copies all of the files from a disk onto another (scratch)
disk or tape of equal or larger capacity. The files appear on
the output device in EXT, FILNAM sorted order. If there were no
errors, BRUCE then initializes the input disk and copies the
files back. The result is a "squeezed" (Consolidated) disk with
all of the .SYS files adjacent (hence the performance
Enhancement), and with a "neat-looking" (unsorted) directory.
NOTE 1: BRUCE cannot restructure the current system disk (SY:),
but the Backup phase is still applicable.
NOTE 2: BRUCE requires some space on SY: for its work files.
(Submitted to the RT-11 SIG Tape Copy program and the DECUS
Library at the Fall 1983 DECUS Symposium, Las Vegas.)