SHOWDUPE and UPDATE

Both of these programs are freeware from PC Magazine: 1992 and 1994 respectively. SHOWDUPE is useful for scanning two disks or directories and showing all the files that are possibly duplicates as judged by their file names. You can then compare both files and get a message that the files are different or identical. At that point, your only option is to delete one or more of the files.

Update, on the other hand, will look at two directories and move files back and forth between the directories so that the most current version of the files are duplicated in both directories. This might be useful if you have a PC card reader attached to your desktop. You could run Update on the Palmtop to synchronize files on the C: and A: disk and then plug the PC card into your PC and run Update there to synchronize a backup to the hard disk.

SHOWDUPE is the work of Richard Hale Shaw CIS:72241,155

Update is the work of Peter G. Aitken (no email address given)

Both files are available from www.zdnet. com/pcmag/pctech/index-ut.html