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Documentation for M)arking Files
by Ken Goosens, 1-31-91
RBBS 17.4 supports a new option inside file directory listings to
M)ark files. Mark essentially is a shorthand way to keep a listing
of files for later viewing or downloading. The idea is that the
caller can mark all the files of interest and then later download
them all at once. Marked files operate as a group, just like
an ordinary file. For example, "d y file1 z m w file2" would mean
to download, using protocol "y", file "file1", then use protocol
"z" to download the marked files, then use protocol "w" to download
"file2". The markings are removed once the marked files are
downloaded. Marking is operative for both viewing and downloading,
and for all directory listings, including the upload directory,
FMS directories, and personal directories.
Marked files are especially valuable for non-FMS directories, since the
listing does resume after a mark. Hence, callers for the first time
can pick all the files to download and continue viewing, without having
to terminate the viewing to download. Marked files also make picking
off files for downloading easier in FMS directories, when the files are
scattered across different screens.
The marked file option forced a change in the prompts. RBBS used
to let you just list files for downloading at a pause in a directory
listing, with an implied download. Since one must be able to both
mark new files, "M" is used for the command to mark. How, then,
would the called say to download previously marked files? It became
necessary to always have the "D)ownload" option available. This
allowed new prompts that used to take file names to support TurboKeys.
So, the option to simply list files by name for downloading is no
longer listed in the prompts (... or file(s) to download). However,
if the caller is not in TurboKey mode (or suspends TurboKeys with "/"),
RBBS will continue to interprete a list of files as an implied download
command.