armhold@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) (11/04/89)
Those of you who have access to FTP from an IBM PC may find this useful for downloading Amiga software from the net. I FTP files from uihub.cs.uiuc.edu directly to an IBM 3.5 " disk (all our PC's have ethernet 'cept the Amiga :-( ). I then use CrossDos to read the .zoo files on the IBM disk. I take the CrossDos utilities from Fish Disk 240 and install the necessary files on my Workbench disk. (You need the arp mount command, mountlist.msdosFS, and msdosfilesystem.) I then execute the following script to automatically un-zoo all the files from di0: and place them on df2:. This is my first attempt at writing a batch file in AmigaDOS so there are quite a few holes in it. One thing that I can't seem to fix is that after the script executes, I can't alter the script- I get an error like "file still in use". Other than this, it works. If anyone can fix this bug (or offer any other improvements) I'd appreciate it. Thanks, -George PS: Thanks go out to Michael Scott Nelson for an explanation of the "spat" command! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- resident SYS:c/echo resident SYS:c/ask resident SYS:c/copy resident SYS:c/cd copy SYS:s/spat to ram: copy SYS:c/zoo to ram: alias doit ram:zoo e// [] mount di0: from DEVS:mountlist.msdosFS ask "Please insert the IBM compat. disk in drive df0: and hit return when ready" echo "Copying the .zoo files to ram:..." copy di0:#?.zoo to ram: ask "Please insert the destination disk in drive df2: and hit return when ready" cd df2: spat doit ram:#?.zoo echo "Deleting .zoo files from RAM:." delete ram:#?.zoo echo "Finished."