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Scylla and Charybdis, gcopy - Tools

The tools are developed under Linux with ESR's paradigm release early, release often in mind.
So you can consider this beta software, or alpha, or pre-alpha, or even worse ;)

Have a look in the download directory for all downloads.
As always here, all you get is the source. No binaries here.

gcopy 0.0.4-20081029-203605

GCOPY - generalized copy

⇒ ⇒ ⇒ The development shifted to another location. All future versions will be published at https://github.com/hilbix/gcopy   ⇐ ⇐ ⇐

GCOPY is a file copy utilitiy under GNU Copyleft.

GCOPY is just a rough start, however it does the job. Some main features (like networking) are not yet implemented.

One main goal of GCOPY is to never harm data. It shall never overwrite files if not explicitly told to do so. The second idea is to bundle data copy functions in it, which do not come easy. Also it can be extend with new features as soon as I need it.

Features implemented:

Direct IO to reduce buffering overhead; Big copy buffer size (1 MB) to reduce thrashing; Overwrite mode (via rename); Copy of file permission setting; Progress status

Missing features:

Copy of capabilities; Safe mode (this is: use link() instead of rename() on backups); Compare mode; Automatic append mode; Networking; Many other basic features

History:

License and Disclaimer All you can see here is free software according to the GNU GPL. Copyright (C)2000-2011 by Valentin Hilbig Note that the software comes with absolutely no warranty of any kind. You use the software at your own risk. Valentin Hilbig cannot be hold responsible for any unintended damage, lost data or malfunction of the software you can find here.