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- From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: FTP Guru needed
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.152816.867@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 15:28:16 -0700
- References: <billc.08t7@popsicle.UUCP><KONPLM.92Aug12163728@euas20c02.eus20><KONPLM.92Aug1 <64072@cup.portal.com>
- Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
- Organization: BC Systems Corporation
- Lines: 50
-
- In article <64072@cup.portal.com>, DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
- >>I don't have the time, much less the patients, to search the convoluted mass
- >>of directories that passes for a logical tree structure. I tried but after
- >>a half hour of looking in empty directories and following dead-ends, I
- >>gave up. The only advantage to such a structure is that along the way,
- >>you may run across some good stuff, which I did.
- >>
- >>Tom Setzer
- >>setzer@ssd.comm.mot.com
- >>
- >
- > I recently gained FTP access and I too am frustrated... There MUST be a way to
- > use LS to look for a file within a tree structure, there also MUST be a way
- > to read a .README file without FTPing it and then DOWNLOADing it and then MOREi
- > ng
- > it and then DELETEing it and going back for the actual file if you decide the
- > .README was interesting. AND there MUST be a way to get FTPed sites to not be
- > so picky about upper/lower case when CDing and GETing.. AND....
-
- 1) There isn't an easy way to use LS to look for a file within a tree
- structure. My usual method is to do a "ls -ltR dir.lis" (I'm using MultiNet on
- a VAX/VMS system), spawn out of FTP and then search the file for what I'm
- looking for. Many sites also store a file along the lines of ls-lR. It's
- usually updated nightly - download this to get a full directory listing.
-
- 2) To read a .README file, you can simply GET it to the screen. For VMS
- systems, GET XX.README TT: will do it.
-
- 3) To get FTP sites to not be case sensitive, convince the sites to replace
- their Unix file systems with a real file system :-). Seriously, under Unix,
- the files are case sensitive. There's nothing you can do about that.
-
- > Any Ideas where I find information on making the most of FTP?
- >
- > (and if anyone says "Use ARCHIE to track down an FTP tutorial on the net" I'll
- > scream!)
-
- Use ARCHIE to track down an FTP tutorial on the net. :-)
-
- Depending on your FTP implementation, online help and man pages should help
- you. The big problem is that FTP just isn't for Unix any more. What is really
- confusing to a lot of people is that you see the remote file system as they
- choose to represent it which isn't necessarily how your originating system
- presents its file systems. For a good time, FTP into a VM file system some
- day...
-
- --
-
- Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
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