INSTRUCTIONS FOR CREATING A BETTER HERDSOFT BACKUP AND RESTORE SEQUENCE.
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  The HerdSoft program relied on Microsoft's BACKUP and RESTORE commands
  to put backup copies of the HerdSoft data onto diskette. Unfortunately
  BACKUP and RESTORE were phased out after MSDOS 5.0.

  PKZIP offers a viable alternative to Microsoft's BACKUP and RESTORE and
  can be implemented in a few minutes by applying these steps:

  1. Get a copy of PKZIP and PKUNZIP and copy these programs to a
     subdirectory (AKA. folder) that's in your PATH variable. If you
     use Windows 95/98, copy them to the "\WINDOWS\COMMAND" folder. If
     you use (the older) MSDOS, you may find a "\DOS"subdirectory in
     your path. Incidentally, you can download PKZIP from this web site;
     it's named "PKZ204G.EXE" and, when run, will expand itself into the
     current subdirectory producing "PKZIP.EXE" and "PKUNZIP.EXE". And it
     needs mentioning that PKZ204G.EXE is 202,624 bytes long (just in case
     someone hacks this web site).


  2. Modify the batch (BAT) file that starts HerdSoft. Normally this file
     will be located in the root of drive C: and called "HMS.BAT" but it
     could potentially be named something else. Once you locate the batch
     file, edit it and change the lines containing the BACKUP and RESTORE
     commands to PKZIP and PKUNZIP respectively. A sample of the batch file
     follows so you can copy the exact command syntax but you must match
     the hard drive letter (ie. C:), the subdirectory and the backup floppy
     drive to your particular installation. The following batch file is for
     an installation where HerdSoft resides in "C:\HMS" and backup sets are
     created on the A: drive. If you HerdSoft resides on a different drive
     and/or subdirectory and/or your backup drive is not A: then you will
     have to use the following batch file as a template and extrapolate
     based on your particular installation.


  The batch file that starts HerdSoft:


ECHO OFF
CLS
ECHO     H E R D   M A N A G E M E N T   S Y S T E M S, Inc.
ECHO ------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO IMPORTANT: Please verify that the date and time are correct.
ECHO ------------------------------------------------------------
DATE
ECHO -
TIME
CLS
VER
C:
CD \HMS
CD
PATH
ECHO Loading Btrieve.
BTRIEVE /P:1024
BASXFACE BSEG.ADR
:START
ECHO Loading BASIC Interpreter.
IBASIC HMLOGO /F:15/S:512
IF NOT EXIST FORM.FLG GOTO SKIP1
DEL FORM.FLG
FORMAT A:
GOTO START
:SKIP1
IF NOT EXIST RES.FLG GOTO SKIP2
DEL RES.FLG

rem ** RESTORE A: C:\HMS\*.*
PKUNZIP -d -o A:\HERDSOFT C:\HMS

GOTO START
:SKIP2
IF NOT EXIST BAC.FLG GOTO SKIP3
DEL BAC.FLG

rem ** BACKUP C:\HMS\*.* A:
PKZIP -rp -&w A:\HERDSOFT C:\HMS\*.*

GOTO START
:SKIP3
REM End of HMS
CD\