Computer Whiz -> Phipps wrote:
 CW> Re: Where is every one

 >>> Where did every one go. I still need to know on how to use a shell
 >> to cr
 >>> directory.
 >> RS f , "FTP File Mask To hunt for: "
 >> Print "Searching For: " % f % " (This will take a minute or tw
 >> let g = "ftpfind.bat " % f
 >> shell g
 >> ef "ftpfound.txt"
 >> Pause
 >> ================
 >> dir /b /s g:\www\share\*.* >ftpdir.txt
 >> find /i "%1" ftpdir.txt >ftpfound.txt
 >> =========================


 CW> Well, that looks like a good script to search for a file on the FTP
 CW> site, not
 CW> far off from Archie, with the exception it only checks your own FTP site 

 CW> Man, do I remember the old days, of searching FTP with archie, and the
 CW> internet
 CW> was all text except for when you download files, which itself was a
 CW> multistep
 CW> process...  first archie for what you looking for...it gives you ftp
 CW> address...
 CW>  you ftp <that address>...  change to the folder listed in the archie, then
 CW> "get" the file, which only copies the file from the FTP server to your
 CW> dial-up
 CW> server, then you type "bye" to exit ftp, and then you download the file
 CW> using
 CW> Zmodem, Ymodem, Xmodem, whatever you have...  Zmodem was easiest,
 CW> resumable,
 CW> Ymodem was ok, but Xmodem or Xmodem/CRC was just outright rediculous 
 CW> Anyways, I went off on a tangent with the subject...

Well that was a request from a user a year or so ago.
I was hopeing it would give alternit choices for bigjoe?

yea arche i usualy just ftp'ed to my fav ftp site and muddled through
the pub dir. i cant say i ever had an inet account that required
useing there server as an inbound.

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