Garchive prints grades files in a form suitable for preservation as a paper archive of your marks. Gdisplay prints grades files in a form suitable for posting so that your students can check their marks.
garchive [sort options] filesgdisplay [selection options] files
Garchive and gdisplay are shell scripts based on gpr.
Garchive tries to be complete. It includes all identifying information, the drop indicator, the flag character, and all comments. It does not change the ordering of the student records.
Gdisplay omits the name, the drop indicator, the flag character, and all comments; it is intended for public posting so that your students can check their marks. Gdisplay sorts the student records by student number, since names are omitted.
It is probably appropriate to call gdisplay with the -d option, so that students who seem to have dropped the course are omitted. It is probably not appropriate to use any selection criteria with garchive; after all, archiving should be all-inclusive.
Both these "programs" are actually shell scripts based on gpr, so their error output may sometimes be misleading.
Garchive and gdisplay are very similar to the old grading programs archive and display, but notice that the names have changed. There are some major differences in behaviour, but these are due to changes in gpr.