Jerome Fine replies: I realize that you are using Windows NT which would not allow the following suggestion, but for others that use Windows 98 SE, I do the following: Using GHOST, I am able to generate an text file which contains a list of every file, the modification date, a 32 bit CRC value for the file and the byte size of the file. This file can also be generated when I make a backup image of the complete (or any portion) of the files on the hard drive. The text for about 11,214 files and 1090 directories uses about 900 KBytes. It takes about 5 minutes to backup 2 GBytes of files and the compressed image file is about 900 MBytes. When I wish to know exactly which files have changed or have been deleted or added, I am able to use FC.EXE and it provides the needed information. Naturally, if there are more than about a few hundred changes, it starts to get a bit difficult. I also have a few tricks that are useful, but they run under RT-11 under the E11 emulator. I copy the text files, using PUTR, to a file which E11 makes available. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

Damien Cymbal wrote: I've used rsync as well there is also a version of wget for windows, which works in much the same way without installing cygwin. Dan

Many versions of diff support diff'ing contents of directories, usually by just specifying the two directories as the targets. "diff -r pathToDir1 pathToDir2". This will work on almost any filesystem type that can be mounted under Linux. And if you don't have Linux installed, consider using a live CD, perhaps Knoppix or Lindows. You should also be able to do this with Cygwins diff. Most Cygwin utils will run with just the cygwin1.dll and the .exe file. If you don't have Cygwin installed (and I believe someone mentioned this earlier), you can install a comprehensive chain of *nix tools with a minimum footprint. Just don't install GCC :) It's very handy when you want command line tools that aren't as readily available under Windows, or you're a *nix hack who switches between Windows and *nix. --jc Paul Koning wrote: