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 Architecture: 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.