GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.BITNET (George A. Theall) (09/26/88)
Use '@' (0x40 ASCII) to tell BACKUP to read from a list of files. BTW: I believe that the BACKUP utility from PC-DOS 2.00 will also work on the Rainbow. It's advantage is that it can handle more than 300 files at a time. Don't know about pd alternatives to BACKUP per se. What I have devised is a way of using PKPAK (aka PKARC v3.61) to archive files in each subdirectory. With a BAT file and MAKE I've pretty much automated the procedure. In this way I've backin up my hard disk without using an excessive number of disks. With PKPAK you can specify a list of files or have it work only on files whose archive bit is set (or is it reset?). More importantly, since the process is fairly automated, I'm more likely to back up my hard disk than if I had to use BACKUP/RESTORE. Some backups are better than none, right? George +------------------------------------------+---------------------------+ | E-Mail: | SnailMail: | | GTHEALL@PENNDRLN (BITNET) | Dept. of Economics | | GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.UPENN.EDU (INTERNET) | Univ. of Pennsylvania | | you!figure!it!out (UUCP) | 3718 Locust Walk /6297 | | 39 57 N, 75 11 W, 200 Alt (ICBM-NET) | Philadelphia, PA. 19104 | | | | | Disclaimer: | AT+TNet: | | "Who? Me? I didn't say that, did I?" | (215) 898-6741 | +------------------------------------------+---------------------------+ To be great is to be misunderstood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays", 1841