rsync for DOS
rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.
rsync is freely available under the GNU General Public License. The rsync
home page is at http://www.samba.org/rsync/
RSYNC 2.2.5 FOR DOS
This is a port of the standard rsync program
(www.rsync.org) to the DOS operating system. It runs
entirely in real mode, making it suitable for embedded
and hand-held systems with only an 8086 processor and 640
KB RAM.
This rsync is necessarily a sub-set of the full rsync,
partly because of memory limitations and partly because
of the peculiarities of DOS. For a list of supported
options, type "rsync -h" and see the rsync man pages
details.
The main differences are:
- Client only. It cannot be run in deamon mode
- No support for rsh or ssh. It communicates with
another copy of rsync running in daemon mode using a
TCP/IP network connection
- File names on the server must be in DOS format (that
is 8.3 characters, UPPER CASE) if they are to be
sync'd correctly
- File data is not compressed
DOWNLOADING RSYNC
You can download the source code from here (975 KB)
and you can get a pre-compiled binary from here (132 KB).
COMPILING RSYNC
To compile you will need a copy of Borland C 3.1. It may work
with other versions of Broland C, but I have not tried it.
Unzip the archive into an empty directory. There is a makefile
in the D16 sub directory. You will have to edit the first few
lines to set it up for your environment:
RT = c:\tmp\rsync
BCC31 = c:\bcc31
First, change RT to point to the directory where you installed rsync,
then change BCC31 to point to your Borland compiler.
Build it using Borland make: no other make will do. There are some
harmless warnings during compilation.
There is a new source file, dossup.c, which contains "bridge" functions
between DOS and Unix. Most of the code that is left out is identified by
the NOSHELLORSERVER conditional. Some code specific to DOS may also be
located by the __BORLANDC__ conditional.
USING RSYNC
Unzip the files in the archive, preferably into an empty
directory. You will need to install a packet driver for
your network adapter. Almost all network cards are
supplied with one on the distribution diskette or CD,
usually in a directory named PKTDRV. If there isn't one,
a collection of packet drivers is freely available for a
wide range of PC Ethernet interfaces from Crynwr
(www.crynwr.com). If that fails, you can use an
ODI driver if you load an ODI to packet converter after
the driver. ODIPKT from FTP Software is an example of
such a converter.
The TCP/IP network is provided by wattcp
(http://www.erickengelke.com/wattcp/). There is a minimum amount of
configuration to be done to set it up. You will need to
create a file called wattcp.cfg in the same directory as
rsync.exe. It should contain at least my_ip and netmask
entries. If you are accessing a server that is not on the
local net or subnet you will need a gateway entry. If you
are addressing the server by name rather than IP address
you will need one or more nameservers as well. Here is an
example. Only the first two lines are necessary:
wattcp.cfg:
my_ip=192.168.1.100
netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.1.1
nameserver=213.120.62.100
nameserver=213.120.62.101
Using rsync on DOS is just like using it for other
operating systems. For example, to sync all the files in
local directory \tmp\sync to module data_files on server
with IP address 192.168.1.1, type:
rsync -rv /tmp/sync 192.168.1.1::data_files/
To sync files in the other direction, i.e. from the
server to the local disk, type
rsync -rv 192.168.1.1::data_files/ /tmp/sync
Note that in specifying the pathname on the DOS file
system the slashes go the "Unix way".
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