AutoWinNet - Agenda
What is an Agenda?
When AutoWinNet goes online, you need to tell him what to do. Check your mail, download a file, etc.
These are called STEPS
Once you've decided the steps AutoWinNet should run, you put them all together in a package.
This is called an AGENDA
So let's create a new agenda with some steps in it, ok?
First, what tasks do we want to perform?
- We saw a great new game posted on ftp.cdrom.com/pub/games the other day, but it was FOUR megabytes
and we didn't have time to download it.
- We also updated a cool new graphic to go on our home page, but it kept timing out when we tried to
connect the other day.
So let's perform both these tasks:
- Create a new agenda by selecting Agendas / New agenda from the main menu.
- Now type in "Get game and web page" in the blank
- Click OK
Our new agenda has appeared on the left - see it? Now click on the name, and the steps list on our right has nothing in
it. So let's add our two steps:
- Click Steps / FTP / File Download from the main menu.
- Fill in ftp.cdrom.com for our FTP site
- Leave the username as anonymous
- Fill in your mailing address in the password
- Put /pub/games/ biggame.zip in the Path and Filename blank
- Click OK
So the Download FTP File dialog should look like this:
FTP Site: ftp.cdrom.com
User Name: anonymous
Password: your@mailingaddress.com
Path and filename: /pub/games/biggame.zip
Now let's upload our new cool .GIF graphics to our web page:
We already know from our Internet provider that to upload things on our page, we need to login using:
Site: ftp.provider.com
Name: fred
Password: secret
then change to the directory: public_html and upload all our stuff. We had previously been doing this in WS_FTP, so
let's translate all that to AutoWinNet. Note: Our graphic is located in c:\web\cool1.gif
- Click Steps / FTP / File Upload from the main menu.
- Fill in ftp.provider.com for our FTP site
- Change the username to fred
- Fill in secret as the password
- Put c:\web\cool1.gif in the Local filename blank
- Put public_html/cool1.gif in the Local filename blank
- Click OK
So the Upload FTP File dialog should look like this:
FTP Site: ftp.provider.com
User Name: fred
Password: secret
Local filename: c:\web\cool1.gif
Remote Path and filename:public_html/cool1.gif
Congratulations! We have created a new agenda with two items on it. To run this immediately, press the VCR-type
Play button, but the whole agenda will fail because both of these FTP locations are ficticious.
Ah well - now you have the basics of AutoWinNet mastered.
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