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- The files in this directroy are Unix scripts.
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- Script "findfile" used to send an email search request to an archie
- server.
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- The syntax is:
- findfile string
- replace string with the file name (or substring) to find.
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- Script "go" is used to start a gopher session
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- The syntax is:
- go [domain-name]
- If a domain name is specified the gopher session will start at that site,
- otherwise, the gopher session will start at the University of Minnesota.
- Use go -b to start at your bookmark file.
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- Script "roadmap" is used to show the use of a script to display
- files from another directory. It was specifically designed to work
- with the excellent Roadmap course. Roadmap was presendted as a group of
- e-mail lessons for new users. If you would like more information about
- the course let me know with mail to lejeune@acyu.digex.net
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- Script "runit" is used to make a script file(s) executable.
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- The syntax is:
- runit script-name-list
- replace script-name-list with the file name(s) to be make
- executable. List is in the form: runit file-1 file-2 ... file-n
- Wild cards may be used, such as runit abc*
- Which will make any file beginning with "abc" executable.
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- The file "cshrc" is a portion of my .cshrc file. It is included
- to show the use of aliases.
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- The file LFCRLF11.ZIP is a shareware contains programs to conver
- DOS file format to UNIX file format and the reverse.
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- If you constantly transfer text and binary files between UNIX and DOS
- platforms, using Kermit or any other file transfer program then these
- utilities are for you.
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- You can set your file transfer program to use always use the
- (slightly faster) binary mode for file transfer. Once the files are on
- the PC, you can translate the files from the UNIX text format to the
- DOS text format using CRLF. Before you transfer the files to UNIX you
- can translate your text files to UNIX format using LF.
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