sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (01/07/91)
My local host is VAX/VMS and I have some Q's about ftp to a lot of unix boxes. The unix-to-unix answers don't always work from VMS. If VMS'ers know the answers, I'd appreciate hearing from them. 0) But first, when people mention a resource at an ftp site, the full path, if known, would be fully appreciated. Some of those archives are huge and complex! 1) When ftp'ing from VMS to unix, how can I search a tree for a particular file? From VMS-to-VMS FTP> dir [<partial path>...]foo*.bar will do. I have tried, in particular, (note: " " are needed VMS-to-unix): FTP> dir "*/*/data-tools" 200 Type set to A. 200 Port command successful 150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (129.64.1.15,54126) (0 bytes). total 712 -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 20 327680 Jan 17 1990 compress.tar -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 20 81920 Dec 6 1989 kermit.tar etc. I searched and searched through /(1st and)/(2nd-level directories) for the data-tools sub-directory but couldn't find it! 2) How do I wild-card search for, say, compr*.* without having to do dir "/compr*.*" ; dir "/*/compr*.*" ; dir "/*/*/compr*.*" etc. until I find it (maybe)? Nothing I've tried seems to work consistently, even when I know the file exists. And how would I ever get the path once having found it? 3) Does anyone know how I can de-compress, un-tar, un-Z, and unpack shell archives under VMS? Obviously, data-tools won't help me (all .tar). There must be un-tar'd source code someplace that we can try to compile here. 4) Finally, I'm also looking for the latex style file that will print a large diagonal light gray "DRAFT" across PostScript output. (Actually, I want "Confidential", but I guess I can change DRAFT if necessary.) Anybody know what it's called and where it is? I know this wan't all relevant to comp.text.tex, so THANK YOU.