Those who have forgotten their DOS, or have no experience with UNIX or other command line functionality, miss out on the beauty and power of the command prompt.  Case in point: I found this nifty little command line utility called "Fsync" by Vico Biscotti (http:// www.vicobiscotti.it).  This application will synchronize any two specified folders and has additional parameters that allow you to ignore source/destination files containing specified strings in the file name, prevent deletion of absent files, etc.  Just copy the little *.exe file to your "C:\WINDOWS" folder (or any folder in the path statement) and you can mirror two folders across a network.  I use this application for timed backups to mirror the source data on a remote server.  Sweet!
    I wrote this little shell to make it easier to build the command line, or just run the application, for friends of mine that are less "techie."  It doesn't permit access to every feature, but it covers what I feel are the important ones.
    Source code for FsyncShell is included as is a copy of fsync.exe v1.4.

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