This is file README.1ST for SRD This will be (is???) released on the Miami Spring 81 tape. This is a re-issue of this SRD, which was originally on the SanDiego Fall78 tape. Please take note that this is *NOT* the same as the "working group" version. (I am inclined to say that it works better, but since I never tried the "working-group" version myself, I don't know from personal experience. Others who have used both, though, tell me that this one is the better.) Since the San Diego release, this has had some minor fixes and some small modifications as requested by other users. I have added some more switches, and included "grand-totals", for wild-card directories. The operation concerning omitting system directories has been changed slightly ( /SY switch). Included also in the release are 2 TECO macros, to do a mass-edit on an SRD output file. In TECO, do EISTRIP$$ and EIGET$$ This is a vastly improved version of SRD, dated 6-DEC 1979. by: Ray Van Tassle Motorola 1301 E. Algonquin Rd. Room 4135 Schaumburg, Ill. 312-576-6017 It has been sporadically updated over the last year and a half, so long that I forgot what it's original base was. I think it was the version distributed with our IAS V 2.0 system. The original SRD had a massive number of bugs, the worst one was probably that it would loose files on a Write-back (but mostly only on very large directories) !!!!!!! This version has had all the bugs I could find fixed, plus a lot of enhancements. Some of the key things are: Write-back works properly, and it also re-tries if it gets an I/O error on the write. It will dynamically expand it's core buffer (via EXTSK$ directive) if the directory won't fit. If the entire directory won't fit, it will do it in chunks, each of which is sorted properly; along with a warning message. A trailer line for each directory is given, showing the number of files in the UFD, and the number of files selected. If a switch that causes the file header to be read is specified (/MI, /FU, or a date switch), the number of blocks used/allocated is also given. A "nolist" switch is added, so you can get the above trailer info, without getting a list of the individual files (very handy for scanning an entire disk). The user write-up has been re-written. On date select, the "before" and "after" dates can now both be specified. The format of the output has been slightly modified so that a simple TECO macro can make a PIP command file to copy (or whatever) the selected files. Two macros to do just that are also on this tape, in my UFD for TECO macros. To use them, do: SRD XXX.CMD=???? TEC XXX.CMD *EISTRIP$$ *EIGET$$ * (any other edit you may want to do) *EX$$ This SRD has been built and run on 11D 6.2, IAS V2.0, and 11M V3.1 To build it, do: MAC @SRDASM TKB @SRDBLD The SRDBLD.CMD and .ODL files have to be slightly modified for the various systems. They are commented.