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    Planes & Requirements for a generic download-tool —Michael Lachmann
   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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Planes & Requirements for a generic download-tool —Rui Manuel Silva Martins
     (...) 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 —Leonardo Zide
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Planes & Requirements for a generic download-tool —Michael Lachmann
   Yes I know, with Win32 it's easy no matter if it's http or ftp, but is it also under Unix? I would like to keep the source as portable as possible. In general it doesn't depend on the protocol, but getting directory listings from ftp servers is (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Planes & Requirements for a generic download-tool —Steve Bliss
   (...) We can always either: a. Enable directory listings for the appropriate directories. b. Supply a parts.dir file, containing the directory listing. BTW, unless something radical changes with the current situation, FTP is the wrong way to go for (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Planes & Requirements for a generic download-tool —Michael Lachmann
   Ok I do not have a problem with http ... so as it looks we are going to use http with some informational files ... just for my understanding ... what the matter with ldraw.org and ftp ? Have I missed something ? Michael Steve Bliss (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Planes & Requirements for a generic download-tool —Steve Bliss
   (...) I'll work on this. (...) Security issues. Don't ask me more, because that's all I know. Steve (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 

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