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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher,comp.archives.admin
- Subject: new tool for FTP and gopher archives
- Followup-To: comp.archives.admin
- Date: 11 Aug 1993 16:26:59 GMT
- Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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- I've just put the first publically available version of Index2cap up for FTP.
- Index2cap is a Perl script which will rewrite FTP area index files into
- .cap files suitable for gopher. From the README:
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- index2cap v 0.2.1 July 6, 1993
- (the most current release of this program is available on sunsite.unc.edu in
- /pub/packages/gopher/index2cap)
-
- index2cap is a way of making an archive that is accessed by both FTP and
- gopher easier to maintain. It starts at the beginning of an archive (or part of
- an archive) searching for index files in the form:
-
- foo.tar.Z a useful utility that does bar
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- and then rewriting them into .cap entries with a "Name" field which gopherd
- uses in replace of the file name. so if the index file was in /pub/shoop,
- index2cap would create a file /pub/shoop/.cap/foo.tar.Z, which would contain
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- Name= foo.tar.Z a useful utility that does bar
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- index2cap will create the .cap directory if it doesn't exist.
-
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- index2cap was written to be run from a nightly crontab; probably the easiest
- way of using it is to write a special configuration file that describes your
- index file (see the man page) and then let it run automatically.
-
- I hope this is useful, but make no guarrantees. Please send any patches
- or bug-fixes to me to be included in a future release.
-
- enjoy,
- jem.
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- jem@sunsite.unc.edu\/sunSITE admin
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