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BACKUP COMMAND
3.3 -- File Reorganization
of files named TEST with suffixes beginning with
the
letter
' \
ttL" to be flagged as deleted.
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After
a
SAVE
or DELETE command has been entered,
each
file name of the sorted directory which has not already
been
marked
as
"saved" or "deleted" and which matches one of the
<name i> (i=l to n) will be marked as "saved"
or
"deleted".
After all thE -File
nam~s
.prom the SAVE
or
DELETE command line
have been processedJ a
ne~
prompt:
S,
D,
p,
(1,
(CR):
will be displayed.
The operator can then enter further
SAVE
or
DELETE
commands as well as an'1 oT the other
valid
commands
of the BACKUP file selection process.
Once a command other than SAVE or DELETE is enterea
one
of
two
things happens to the sorted directory.
I.p at least
one SAVE command has been processed without error,
then
all
file names in the sorted directory not marked as "saved" will
be marked as 'Ideleted".
On
the other hand}
if
no prior
SAVE
commands
were
usedJ
then
all
file
names
not
marked as
" del e t
e <i
tI
UJ
i 11
bee
1 i 9
i
b 1 e f
or cop yin g ( mar ked
a
s
It
save
d .. ).
The
GUIT
comman,d can be entered at
an~
time in
1"esponse
to
the
file
selection command prompt.
QUIT will cause the
BACKUP
process to be terminated and control returned to
MDOS.
The file selection commands entered thus far
~ill
have had no
efTect on the
destination
diskette;
however,
due
to ·the
reorganization option,
the destination diskette will have had
its basic system tables initialized as described above.
The NO MORE command, entered as a carriage return
only,
indicates
that no more file selection commands will be given
by
the operator.
If no file
selection
commands
have
been
entered
prior to the NO MORE command,
then all file names in
the sorted directory
~ill
be
eligible
for
cop~ing
to
the
destination diskette.
The copy process will begin.
The
PRINT
command will cause all names from the sorted
directory which have not yet been flagged as "deleted" to
be
printed.
The PRINT command also makes it impossible to enter
further SAVE, DELETE,
or QUIT commands.
The
PRINT
command
has
its
o~n
sub-command
structure that allows deletion of
file names from the sorted directorq.
Along with
each
file
name
and
sUTfix
a
t~o-digitl
hexadecimal
number
that
indicates the position
aT
the file
name
within
the
sorted
director~
is
displayed.
Thus,
the
output rrom the PRINT
command could look like:
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