Short: Makes *ix scripts for ncftp from file index Author: uairk@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu Uploader: uairk mcl mcl ucsb edu Type: util/cli Architecture: m68k-amigaos This was a quick little program to take something like the aminet index file and produce a script I could run from my *ix account at school that would use ncftp to retrieve a group of files in the background so that I could go about my usual business and at the end of the day I'd have stuff to take home :) Writing the scripts by hand was ridiculous- so I wrote it in REXX- this was slow so I redid it in C and went nuts adding options and making it a little more generalized - I also managed to keep it as ANSI as possible so that it _should_ compile and work on standard *ix machines as well albeit without the file-description options. For some reason even compiling with gcc and "-fwritable-strings" (thanks boing) doesn't help with the descriptions. Obviously I don't do enough in C or I'd figure out the problem :) urm... using: Just do something like grep -i stuff INDEX | mkfscript -s ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/aminet stuff.sh if you have it running on a *ix machine - if you have it only on your Amiga box then use "pipe" or grep -i stuff INDEX > stuff.index mkfscript ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/aminet stuff.sh Read the documentation for other options and so on. mkfscript handles quite a few ways of getting information to and from. - Eric. uairk@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu 04AUG94