Date   : Thu, 26 Jan 1984 17:00:39 EST
From   : Dave Towson (info-cpm) <cpmlist@brl-vgr>
Subject: [Stephen C. Hill: Stickyfying SIMTEL20]

I thought this was of sufficiently general interest to pass along to the list.


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Date: 25 January 1984 22:32 EST
From: Stephen C. Hill <STEVEH @ MIT-MC>
Subject:  Stickyfying SIMTEL20
To: info-cpm-request @ BRL-VGR
cc: STEVEH @ MIT-MC

Is there any method that can be used, while FTPing, that allows
one to not have to keep repeating MICRO:<CPM.xxxx> every time
that you GET a file or get a DIRectory listing?


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Steve - Here at Aberdeen Proving Ground, we are running a lot of UNIX systems.
This includes the machine from which info-cpm is distributed.  UNIX allows for
command-language programs, or shell-scripts, and  we have used this feature to 
good advantage in making the job of FTPing much simpler.  At present, this
system of programs is rather klugey, being composed of many bits and pieces
that
all have to be available for the whole thing to work.  But work it does.  If I
type the command line "cpmug 029 sap.asm" it automatically calls simtel20 and
moves the file "micro:<cpmug.vol029>sap.asm" to a file having the name
"sap.asm"
in the calling directory.  Using the editor, I can create a shell-script with 
entries on separate lines having the form "x program.name", and then use the
search-and-replace feature of the editor to substitute the string "cpmug 029" 
(adjust for different volume number) in place of "x".  That's fairly quick and 
easy to do.  Then if I mark the file just created as executable, I can run it
and move a whole batch of stuff automatically.  The main file-mover portion of
this kluge was written by Fred Brundick <fsbrn@brl-voc>.  It creates command
strings which are fed to FTP.  It uses several "subroutines", which are in  
separate files.  I've never added-up the number of different files that
must be 
present to make what I've just described work, but it could easily be ten
or so.
It's a real lashup - but it WORKS!  Fred is planning to make a nice civilized, 
all-in-one-hunk version someday, but it is now on the stack.  Other than this 
sort of approach, I don't know of any way to reduce the typing involved in
moving a bunch of files via FTP.


Dave