pc based backups

Michael Vezie (mlv@pobox.com)
Sun, 01 Dec 1996 23:42:23 -0500

I have at work, on my Sun workstation, ogftp and a shell script I wrote
that will backup my geoworks\document directory (the fact that ogftp
supports 'get *' makes this a trivial script).

Question: has anyone ported ogftp to DOS? I have omnicom, but it seems
to be inferior to ogftp in this important area -- omnicom can not handle
wildcards (I've seen the code in ogftp -- it doesn't appear to be all that
difficult).

Otherwise, how does one easily backup to a PC? A set script that does
"get this file, get that file" won't work, because I'm adding new files
(new databases, etc) to my documents directory all the time.

If I had a working C compiler for DOS, I could probably port ogftp -- it's
not exactly complicated code, but I don't. Any ideas?

One more thing -- is there any way to make the Windows installer (which I
just discovered this evening, and LIKE!) talk at 19200 baud?

In Christ,
Michael
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