Eric van Loon wrote
> I have a file which contains a list of more than thousand files that
> I need to back up.
>
> Is there a way to do this easely? Can you tell ADSM to use an input
> file for selecting which files to back up?

On Unix you could use xargs to "feed" files to dsmc:

  # xargs -n 19 dsmc selective < file.list

The '-n 19' limits xargs to passing (at most) 19 filenames to dsmc at
a time -- I've had problems getting the AIX dsmc to accept more than
19 filenames on the command line.  Effectively, this is the same as
running

  # dsmc selective file1 file2 file3 ...
  # dsmc selective file20 file21 file22 ...
  ...

I don't know if there are similar utilities for other platforms (for
DOS or Windows you could try looking at some of the Unix utilities
packages -- I know some of the GNU utilities have been ported to
Windows 95).

 Scotty

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