Short:    Makes *ix scripts for ncftp from file index
Author:   uairk@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu
Uploader: uairk@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu
Type:     util/cli

This was a quick little program to take something like the aminet index file and
produce a script I could run from my *ix account at school that would use ncftp
to retrieve a group of files in the background so that I could go about my usual
business and at the end of the day I'd have stuff to take home :) Writing the
scripts by hand was ridiculous- so I wrote it in REXX- this was slow so I redid
it in C and went nuts adding options and making it a little more generalized - I
also managed to keep it as ANSI as possible so that it _should_ compile and work
on standard *ix machines as well albeit without the file-description options.
For some reason even compiling with gcc and "-fwritable-strings" (thanks boing) 
doesn't help with the descriptions.  Obviously I don't do enough in C or I'd 
figure out the problem :)

urm... using: Just do something like

grep -i stuff INDEX | mkfscript -s ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/aminet stuff.sh

if you have it running on a *ix machine - if you have it only on your Amiga box
then use "pipe" or 

grep -i stuff INDEX > stuff.index
mkfscript ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/aminet stuff.sh

Read the documentation for other options and so on. mkfscript handles quite
a few ways of getting information to and from.

 - Eric.
   uairk@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu
   04AUG94


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