From: faerber AT ant DOT uni-hannover DOT de (Dirk Färber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: directory compare
Date: 18 Jan 1999 14:05:52 GMT
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Hi,

I've once written a program in pascal for a DOS-machine which does the 
following:
1. It reads two directory structures. E.g. one at c:\user\texte the 
   other at a:\texte
3. It compares every file by size and date and choses whether it's
   missing in that position of the other directory tree or if it's 
   newer.
4. If it's missing or it's newer an appropiate copy-command is written 
   into a temporary script file (tmp.bat).
5. This script file can be edited prior to execution or it can be 
   passed through grep to exclude/include specific files. 
   This is actually an advantage compared to other programs I found!

A further advantage of this non-graphical program is, that it can be 
run easily from script-files (foo.bat).

Before I adapt this program to long-filenames in Windows95 with Pascal
I would prefer to rewrite it in C, if - and that's the question now - 
if not anyone else had already written something like this. 

Does anybody knows such a program which does directory comparision
and which is written preferable for djgpp?

Thanks in advance

-Dirk