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Re: Internetty thingies.

• Posted by acran at readout.fsnet.co.uk Apr 09, 2002
• 365 views

Hello "Mr. T" 

At 23:40 09/04/02 +1000, you wrote:
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>Two questions, the first of which does not relate to the title: (it's late)
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>How do you retrieve a file from a remote location?
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>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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