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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

NAME	ND-NUMBER	CATEGORY
BACKUP-SYSTEM	10337B	P
	ND-NUMBER FOR SOURCE
	10347B

ISSUED

DATE	BY (INITIALS)
81.11.16	LA

COMPUTERS

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INSTR.SET

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OP.SYSTEM

DOCUMENTATION

NUMBER	60.151.01
TITLE	SINTRAN III UTILITIES MANUAL (Not released yet)

PURPOSE

SUB-SYSTEM FOR FILE COPYING AND BACKUP UNDER SINTRAN-III.

PROGRAMS (FILES)

PROG.NUMBER	NAME	TYPE	CONTAINING
203160B	BACKUP-SYSTEM	BPUN	BACKUP-SYSTEM PROGRAM

LOADING/OPERATING PROCEDURE, USE

COPY THE FILE BACKUP-SYSTEM:BPUN FROM THE FLOPPY CALLED ND-10337B (BACKUP-SYSTEM FOR SINTRAN-III) TO THE USER WHERE YOU KEEP THE :BPUN FILES (SYSTEM,UTILITY,BPUN-FILES....)

EXAMPLE:

LOG IN UNDER THE USER WHERE YOU KEEP THE :BPUN FILES:

@ENTER-DIRECTORY ND-10337B,FLOPPY-DISK-1<,0>
@COPY-FILE "BACKUP-SYSTEM-B:BPUN" (ND-10337B:F-U)BACKUP-SYSTEM:BPUN

LOG IN UNDER USER SYSTEM

@DUMP-REENTRANT BACKUP-SYSTEM-B 0 0 (???)BACKUP-SYSTEM

ONLINE DOCUMENTATION

ONLINE DOCUMENTATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE BACKUP-SYSTEM BY THE FUNCTIONS HELP AND (?)

HELP

FUNCTION FOR LISTING COMMANDS OR A SUBSET OF COMMANDS. HELP HAS COMMAND-NAME AS PARAMETER. IF HELP IS TYPED AS PARAMETER TO HELP, THE COMMANDS WILL BE LISTED WITH CORRESPONDING EXPLANATIONS.

(?)

A (?) FOLLOWING AN AMBIGUOUS COMMAND ACTS AS HELP WITH THE COMMAND-NAME AS PARAMETER. IF THE COMMAND IS UNIQUE, AN EXPLANATION OF THIS COMMAND IS GIVEN. A (?) GIVEN IN PLACE OF A PARAMETER WILL EXPLAIN THIS PARAMETER.

THE BACKUP-SYSTEM WILL ACCEPT SEVERAL COMMANDS WRITTEN ON THE SAME LINE. WHEN THESE COMMANDS ARE PROCESSED, THE BACKUP SYSTEM WILL TRACE THEM BY OUTPUTTING THE LEAD-TEXT,COMMAND-NAMES AND PARAMETERS COLLECTED.

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REVISION LOG¶

PRODUCT	NAME	ND-NUMBER
	BACKUP-SYSTEM	10337B

ISSUED	DATE 81.11.16	BY (INITIALS) LA

REASON	DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT
X ERROR CORRECTION	..................................
X CHANGE/ADDITION

FILES	PROG.NUMB. NAME
CHANGED	203160B BACKUP-SYSTEM
OR NEW
FILES

CHANGES¶

LABELS ARE CHANGED TO INCLUDE MAX BYTE POINTER ALSO WHEN COPYING IN STANDARD VOLUME MODE. THIS WILL ENSURE CORRECT BYTE POINTER ON DESTINATION FILES WHEN INTERCHANGING TAPES BETWEEN BACKUP-SYSTEM AND SINTRAN COPY-USERS-FILES.

CORRECTED ERROR IN INPUT ROUTINE WHEN SELECTING FILES TO BE COPIED. FILE-TYPE WAS SOMETIMES IGNORED.

CORRECTED ERROR WHEN CHECKING ON OWNER OF VOLUME. USERS WITH NAMES LONGER THAN 13 CHARACTERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO ACCESS THEIR VOLUMES.

ERRORS LIKE NOT-READ-ACCESS WHEN ACCESSING SOURCE-FILES CAUSED THE BACKUP-SYSTEM TO ABORT COPYING. THE BACKUP-SYSTEM WILL NOW PRINT THE FILE-NUMBER, ERROR MESSAGE AND CONTINUE COPYING THE FOLLOWING FILES.

WHEN SOURCE-FILES ARE DEFINED FROM A PARAMETER-FILE, THE BACKUP-SYSTEM WILL NOT TERMINATE IF NO FILES ARE FOUND UNDER A GIVEN FILE KEY. THE BACKUP-SYSTEM TERMINATES AT END-OF PARAMETER-FILE.

MAG-TAPE UNIT WAS NOT RESERVED WHEN A COPY WAS EXECUTED FOLLOWING A LIST- OR CREATE-VOLUME COMMAND. THE MAG-TAPE UNIT IS NOW RESERVED WHEN ACCESSED AND STAYS RESERVED UNTIL A NEW UNIT IS ACCESSED OR EXIT FROM THE BACKUP-SYSTEM IS PERFORMED.

CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE TAPE INPUT ROUTINES OF THE BACKUP-SYSTEM TO ACCEPT VARIOUS IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE ANSI-LABEL STANDARD. THE BACKUP-SYSTEM WILL TURN ON MANUAL-CHECK IF FILES AND NAMES ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH ND-FILESYSTEM. A POSSIBILITY TO REDEFINE THE NAMES IS THEN GIVEN AND THE FILE WILL BE CREATED ACCORDING TO THE NEW NAMES. THIS MIGHT MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO COPY FROM FOREIGN ANSI-LABELLED TAPES WITH THE BACKUP-SYSTEM.

MANUAL CHECK WILL NOW ACCEPT LOWER-CASE CHARACTERS.

MINOR CHANGE IN LIST-VOLUME TO ALLOW 4 DIGIT FILE-NUMBERS.

CORRECTED ERRORS IN USER- AND MASTER-LOG MODES CONCERNING OPENING OF LOG-FILES.

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Containing¶

Backup-System

Directory Information¶

Directory Name: ND-10337B
User Name: FLOPPY-USER

File Details¶

File 0: (ND-10337B:FLOPPY-USER)BACKUP-SYSTEM-B:BFUN;1

Date¶

16 November 1981