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Planes & Requirements for a generic download-tool
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:24:24 GMT
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Hy,
after exchanging some mails with Tim Courtney, I'm planing to write a generic
download-utility for LDraw/LEdit stuff.
The basic idea behind is to have a utility which can be used to download a
specific program and/or the part libraries. Also an automatic upgrade process
shell be possible like it's known from many anti virus tools.
In general the tool should take care about everything what is necessary to get
a certain program running and to keep it and the libraries up-to-date.
I saw that it is possible to extract the executables Ledit.exe and
Complete.exe using WinZip and I will check if it is also possible using GZip.
If yes I will include gnu-zip code into the program to automatically unpack
the packages.
Question to Tim: Would it be possible for you to activate an ftp server at
ldraw.org where you put everything in which is download-able? This would make
the whole thing more easy to program (at least for me ...).
Another thing is that I would like to ask to include a certain text-file into
the complete.exe and updates which cleary states the which update is included
in the package so tracking would be easy.
Please tell me if somebody would like to help me in writing this stuff and
maybe you have other ideas based on this proposal.
Regards,
Michael
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 | | Re: Planes & Requirements for a generic download-tool
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| (...) Great to see someone is in sink with me ! I have been planning this for a while too ! (...) I was thinking more on the line of an update for the Oficial DATs, but this can be easilly extended if a config file for each program/library can be (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: Planes & Requirements for a generic download-tool
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| (...) There's a zip library at ftp.cdrom.com that is capable of extracting files (doh !) and has an example for creating a win32 program. I forgot the name but it should be very easy to find. (...) If you're going to do a win32 program then you can (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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