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- * MG-FTP *
- * Version 1.2 *
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- * A small Handbook *
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- Prenote
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- Like normal: There is no programm which contains absolutly no error, and
- is this, I think. For this reason I give no warranty that this programm runs
- on all systems or that is does no damage to the soft- or the hardware.
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- Thanks
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- To all people who send me their fabulous bug reports.
- Adn a very special thank to all who write mails or even called me to say
- that I have left my password in the archiv (as you will notice, the password
- is still in it, but my account-password has changed :-) )
- And another very big thanks goes to all people who maintain a mirror of
- this software.
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- Known errors/problems and questions
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- 1) When using MagiC, MagiCMac or MultiTOS the programm starts and then
- quits with a "stack overflow" error.
- In these cases it mostly helps to switch of the TT-RAM flags.
- 2) Links are not displayed in the listing.
- 3) There are many places in the programm at which the programm does not
- detect connection time outs. At these points the programm may crash.
- 4) The programm starts and then quits with the error message that the
- STiK driver could not be initialised correctly. This occurs when STiK
- is not enabled (this must be because some settings are made in the beginning
- of the programm and some of these settings need STiK)
- 5) Sometimes it happens that an error occurs while up- or downloading
- some files very fast. At the moment I cannot reproduce them and so
- it is hard to find out why this happens. But a little trick is to
- up- or download the non processed files again
- 6) Sometimes it happens that the directory display is corrupted. I do not
- know why, but here it often helps to reload the directory
- 7) ATTENTION: The old HOSTS file could not be used any more
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- Usage
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- The usage of the program is very simple and obvious but I will explain some
- functions.
- In the options dialog diffrent paths can be specified for up- and downloads.
- These paths are the local ones.
- The buttons "all" and "none" are simple possibilities to select or deselect all
- files in the current directory.
- With a click on a file with the right mouse button a pup-up occure which give you
- some more functions (at the moment just the 'display' function). But be careful with
- the display function, the programm tries to display everything but SysGEM crashes
- with binary data, so be sure to just display text data.
- By the way, the display function changes the UNIX linefeed (LF) to ATARI linefeed
- (CRLF), so UNIX texts can be displayed correctly.
- In this version the directory listings are cached (for the time of the session).
- But sometimes you must reload a directory list to see if there are changes
- or something else, therefore it is possible to select the both directoy
- function buttons ("CD .." and "CD ??") with the right mouse button.
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- TO-DO list
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- - links will be displayed and handled
- - PUT will be able use multi-selections (as I get the description about how
- I can get these selections from fileselectors like boxkite)
- - some more functions whiche ftp-servers can handle. (kill or mkdir for
- example)
- - selection of files which are not in the same directory. So it will be possible
- to search through the whole ftp-server and tag the files you want and then
- get them all by one)
- - the PORT command will be handled as alternativ to the PASV command. With this
- all servers should work (are there any servers which does not support PASV ?)
- - other remote filesystems will be included
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- How to develop a new RSC file
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- It is not prohibted to develop a new RSC file for another language or for
- major changes, but if you do this, please send me the new version so that
- I can include the changes to my own RSC files or include RSC files with
- diffrent languages in the archiv.
- As normal the object indexes must not be changed. Because it is sometimes
- difficult to check this (because some RSC editors do not have good functions
- for this) I put in the header files of the two RSC files. This will help
- to check the object indexes in the before and after version.
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- Address
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- Michael Guse
- Eschenburgstrasse 27c
- 23568 Luebeck
- Germany
- Tel.: +49 451 35 333
- EMail: gooseman@on-luebeck.de
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- If you have ideas or errors, please email me. But when you an error, please
- send me the name of the server and the directory path where the error occured, so
- I can test the server myself.
- If somebody wants to maintain a mirror of this software, please email me, so I
- can send her/him a mail, when a new version is ready.
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- And now have some fun,
- Michael Guse
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