1. Internetty thingies.
Two questions, the first of which does not relate to the title: (it's late)
How do you retrieve a file from a remote location?
1) I need to check the existence of a file on a different computer.
Can I set the path (for exw) as \\(name of comp)\c\directory, like appears
in the win explorer window?
2) I wish to write a routine, that, given a sequence of strings containing
url's, it will download each url's file into a given directory. It doesn't
need to search the files' contents for dependant files, just the file
itself. Any ideas?
Cheers
++++++++++++
Mr Trick
2. Re: Internetty thingies.
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On 9 Apr 2002, at 23:40, mistertrik at hotmail.com wrote:
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> 2) I wish to write a routine, that, given a sequence of strings containing
> url's, it will download each url's file into a given directory. It doesn't
> need
> to search the files' contents for dependant files, just the file itself. Any
> ideas?
Yes, again, to be easy use webshepard or asynchttp, just loop thru the url
list. I do this every hour using mirc and tcp4u. Once a week i use a program i
wrote for EInetLib_full.ew, just because i am too lazy to change it to tcp4u or
asynchttp. The attached file is quick and dirty, but it's been running for a
year without problems. It also munges the file, makes a filename, checks for
duplicate saved files, etc.. It does not make a new directory however, that
was usually done a week before in the mirc program as a tag for me,,
webshepard makes new directories while it's running. My program also does
not fetch any urls or src= tags in the webpages, it fetches only the url you
specify. If you want that, add the new urls to the bottom of the readlist and
just keep on running. And don't take this program as a example of good
coding style!
Beware that some webservers know if you are repeatedly connecting to
them, and they might not like it, and deny access to your whole isp.
Kat,
hoping this gets thru.
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3. Re: Internetty thingies.
Hello "Mr. T" 
At 23:40 09/04/02 +1000, you wrote:
>
>Two questions, the first of which does not relate to the title: (it's late)
>
>How do you retrieve a file from a remote location?
>
>1) I need to check the existence of a file on a different computer.
>Can I set the path (for exw) as \\(name of comp)\c\directory, like appears
>in the win explorer window?
Why not work out which drive letter has been mapped to \\(name of
comp)\c\directory and then try opening the file (e.g.
"I:\sharedstuff\filename") and if the file open is ok then assume the file
exists? YMMV
>2) I wish to write a routine, that, given a sequence of strings containing
>url's, it will download each url's file into a given directory. It doesn't
>need to search the files' contents for dependant files, just the file
>itself. Any ideas?
Two options I can suggest. First is to use one of several TCP based
libraries on the contributions page.
Second is to download the GRABURL.EXE utility (assuming your running
Windows) from:
http://www.kiraly.com/software/utilities/graburl/
and then call this from "system" calls in EU which save the output to a
file and you can then open, read and inspect the contents of this output file.
>Cheers
>++++++++++++
>Mr Trick
Likewise,
Andy Cranston.
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