README.1ST 25-Oct-83 BRUCE (Backup and Restore Utility with Consolidation and Enhancement) - - - - - 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.)