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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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