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- *** Readme for setup & running of HTTPlister.rexx V2.01 ***
-
- V2.01 changes:
-
- Small change to buttons to allow for the downloading of the readme
- along with each file (by selecting 'Download Selected' with the right
- mouse button).
-
- Fixed a slight incompatibility problem between the older and newer
- versions of Dopus, in the handling of the search requester, thanks to
- Mark for pointing it out also.
-
- After I found HTTPlister.rexx wouldn't work with HTTPresume V1.6 as it
- would with V1.3 I've changed the port handling of HTTPresume.
-
- To facilitate the change from V2.0 of HTTPlister.rexx to V2.01..
-
- Copy the file in the drawer Buttons TO DOpus5:Buttons/
- Copy the file in the drawer ARexx TO DOpus5:ARexx/
-
- If SETTING UP FOR THE FIRST TIME or changing from earlier versions go
- to the 'Setting up' section below.
-
- -------------------------------
-
- Brief Description
-
- You will need HTTPResume, also found on aminet (comm/www) for
- this to work.
-
- Once you have done the small amount of setting up outlined below
- you will be able to list the entire contents of the Aminet RECENT
- file in a Dopus lister (optionally minus the aminet file dirs you
- don't want listed) and to select any number of files and download
- them.
-
- You'll also be able to select/download and read readme files.
-
- -------------------------------
-
- To get this going, pass a listing file to this script by either selecting
- the listing (RECENT) file in a lister and then run this script OR pass
- the listing file with it's path to this script as an argument when
- running it.
-
- When you've finished with a listing you can get another listing into
- the lister by Drag & Drop or run this script again passing the listing
- file to it as mentioned.
-
- When you run this script from a Dopus menu etc. set the flag
- Run asynchronously.
-
- Downloading files.,
- The initial download directory is RAM: as set by the variable 'DDir'.
-
- You download the files by clicking on them once in the lister and
- then selecting the 'Download Selected' button, selecting this button
- with the right mouse button causes the .readme for each file to be
- down loaded also.
-
- Alternatively you can Drag & Drop them into a destination lister.
- That will cause that lister to be the new download directory.
-
- The URL for downloading files from can be changed by selecting the
- 'Change URL' button, the URL is shown briefly in the listers' drag bar.
- Selecting this button with the right mouse button shows the current URL.
-
- Because the most likely time to encounter download troubles is
- during the downloading of large files with the posibility of
- missing the smaller files, the selected files are downloaded from
- smallest to largest.
-
- Downloaded files of the same name overwrite the ones in the
- download directory.
-
- An HTTPdebug.log file is written to the download directory.
-
- Readme files.,
- To read the .readme for a file hold down the SHIFT key and
- DOUBLECLICK the file.
-
- Or hold down the SHIFT and Drag & Drop the file into a destination
- lister, that will also make that lister the current download
- directory - all future downloads will go there; that is until
- there's another Drag & Drop to somewhere else.
-
- Only get ONE readme file at a time.
-
- The lister.,
- Each button in the lister has a keyboard alternative as per the
- under-scored character in the text of each button plus the control
- key as the qualifier.
-
- By selecting either of the listers column labels 'Name' or 'Comment'
- the list can be sorted either by file name or by aminet directory.
-
- Selecting the 'Date' label in the lister gets all the lines sorted in
- the same order as they were in the file they came from. (The 'dates'
- are meaningless - generated for sorting purposes only).
-
- It is actually the 'time' part of the date field that gets incremented,
- the dates remain constant.
-
- There are 3 sorting methods for the Date field, select the 'Date' label
- 3 times to see which one you want.
-
- o The most downloaded files from Aminet during the week have the date:
- 22-Feb-88.
-
- o The highest rated programs during the week have the date:
- 30-Mar-98.
-
- o The rest have the date:
- 01-Jan-78.
-
- Message of the day, if there is one, gets displayed as the list is loaded.
-
- ---------------------
-
- The Buttons
-
- Download: Downloads the selected files.
- Selected: Right MB downloads file .readme's as well.
-
- UnSelect: Toggles between Selected & UnSelected.
- ReSelect:
-
- Search: Searches Name & Comment columns for some text.
- Lister:
-
- PreSelect: This is handy for choosing files while off line and having them
- re-selected automatically when the RECENT file is loaded again.
-
- Clicking this button saves the names of the selected files for
- re-selection when the RECENT file is again loaded into the lister.
- Only when ALL the PreSelected file names are re-selected is the
- PreSelected memory of the file names removed. So that if a
- different RECENT file is loaded in with only some of the
- PreSelected file names in it they will still be selected but the
- memory of all the PreSelected names will still be there for when
- the original RECENT file is loaded into the lister.
- Clicking PreSelect again during the same session (WITHOUT any files
- currently selected) re-selects the PreSelected files.
-
- Download: Downloads and loads (into the lister) a RECENT file from the
- RECENT : current URL.
-
- Change: Changes URL and briefly displays it in the window title bar.
- URL : Right Mouse button on this shows the current URL.
-
- ---------------------
-
- Downloaded (read) readme's are left in the download directory.
-
- The download directory changes when you download by Drag & Drop.
-
- Files not found (except the readme's) are left selected.
-
- If HTTPresume is aborted before the file has finished being downloaded
- you will just have to try again or use HTTPresume for what it was
- designed for. Read HTTPresume docs for all about that.
-
-
- *** Setting up **
-
- o Copy the file in the Button drawer to the Dopus5:Button drawer.
- o Copy the files in the Image drawer to the Dopus5:Image drawer.
- o Copy the file in the ARexx drawer to the Dopus5:ARexx drawer.
-
- o READ THE HEADER IN HTTPlister.rexx for more info as THERE ARE
- VARIABLE VALUES TO BE SET there.
-
- o Edit the FilterOut string in HTTPlister.rexx.. for the aminet
- file dirs you DON'T want listed.
-
- I have included the file 'aminet_TREE' in this archive to refer to
- when compiling the list of aminet file dirs to filter out.
-
- I have also included the ARexx script 'YAM2HTTPlister.rexx' for getting
- a subscribed RECENT file loaded into the lister from YAM.
-
- Note!
- * This is strictly USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
- * This has only been tested with Directory Opus 5.661 Magellan and
- * HTTPResume 1.6.
- * The names listed in the lister are only pseudo-files and can't be
- * treated as you would other file names in normal listers. Only apply
- * the actions that I outline and it should all work OK.
-
- Enjoy.
- ******
-