Hi! Wilfred,

On 22 Mar 19 11:45, you wrote to me:

 WV> I'm also using something similar in some old backup scripts:
 WV> 'mirrordir', which I don't think is the same as your 'mirdir'. Which
 WV> also seems to suffer from a 32 bit problem, because it doesn't handle
 WV> files over 2GB in size.

 WV> Nowadays I always use rsync...

I would guess that the Linux 'story' would be similar to DOS.  For every 
generation of users there's probably a util to do a similar job, but they each 
lose relevance and notoriety amongst the population of users.  So, someone 
invents a new wheel... etc, etc.

Cheers,
Paul.

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