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- Short: Unix scripts to expedite transfers
- Author: eraugust@igate1.hac.com (Eric R. Augustine)
- Uploader: eraugust@igate1.hac.com (Eric R. Augustine)
- Type: misc/unix
-
- Requirements (sort of):
- These scripts all run on Unix workstations - and should
- have no portability problems (except where you are missing
- gzip on your system - you should punish your SysAdm for
- this oversight) since they are all written in the bourne
- shell interpreted language (except of course where you are
- lost in the world of AIX - my condolences)
-
- Installation:
- unpack everything using lha and then just run the script
- 'xfrcfg'. This script will ask you a few questions and if
- you answer them it will install the scripts in your home
- directory and add the path to your login scripts. If the
- AmiNet INDEX file is (uncompressed) in your directory tree
- anywhere it will find it and put it in the directory and
- create the index files. It will also modify the other
- scripts to recognize where they should run to and from.
-
- Explaination:
- These are all intended to work together - Get the AmiNet
- INDEX file and use mkamidx to create your index directory
- and files. Then use aindex to find a set of files that
- match your interests in that set of index files (I split
- up the index because I like to go hunting ever so often
- in certain sections of the index and it made sense at the
- time to do it that way) These searches get dumped to a
- file called "get.$STRING", where $STRING is the string you
- searched with. Once you have a whole stack of get files
- (or even if you have only one) run the script mkfsc (make
- ftp script) this then creates something you can use in
- concert with ftp to automatically get all of your aminet
- warez. Once you have them all - you run the script called
- mkamidir which creates all of the directories and places
- the files in them (correctly) so that when you transfer
- the whole archive to your Amiga you have a small piece
- of AmiNet on your Amiga - well this is how I like it and
- since I have several Gigs of space on my Amiga - I do it
- this way. Oh - the last script - mksend - just go to the
- directory where you have all of the stuff you want to xfr
- back to your Amiga and type mksend. This creates a file
- called '.send' in that directory. When you go to the
- Amiga and want to d/l the directory - type .send on the
- Unix side and the transfer should start up (I use VLT and
- it automatically senses that a ZModem transfer has begun
- and starts receiving on the Amiga side.
-
- These should all be in your path someplace - and actually
- there should be one more script in here that configs the
- others and your environment to get you going... Haven't
- done that yet.
-
-
- Here's the file list:
-
- aindex - read aminet index file sections
- mkamidir - make the aminet directory tree with files
- mkamidx - make the aminet index sections for aindex
- mkfsc - make an ftp script
- mksend - make a zmodem send script
- xfrcfg - installs everything
-
- Other files/warez out there that I have uploaded to aminet
- in the past that might be of interest are:
-
- mkms - make mail and ncftp scripts (ncftp is a little
- faster if you can get it on your system)
- asplit - used to be ssplit, but someone used that name.
- splits and combines large files by line or byte
- with several other options.
- BReq - boot requester screen, with blanker and timeout.
- back when I was using NetBSD I wanted an option
- screen. this served that purpose but it has
- several options that make it more than just
- something to boot NetBSD or AmigaDOS with. I use
- it to boot AmigaDOS or start DeGrader so I can
- go direct into Demos and Games.
-
- If you have trouble with anything in this or another package
- send me mail at:
-
- eraugust@igate1.hac.com
-
- with a subject that tells me what it's about (I may ignore it
- otherwise) I will try my best to help. You can also send flames
- and suggests there. You can also just mail if you want mail back
- (no promises but I try to get to all of my mail eventually)
-
- --Eric.
-