On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 19:02:42 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> L.D. Best wrote:
>> Don't know if you'd consider it "elegant" [I'm not elegant, and don't
>> like feathers and jewels] but downloading a file with Arachne is pretty
>> basic and simple.
>> <snip>
>> I sometimes wonder howcome some people that have been on the list for
>> years know even less about how Arachne works than *I* do.
> Well, LD, I haven't been on the list as long as you and I'd guess that you
> know more about Arachne than I do because you use it - or try to use it -
> everyday for everything.
> Tell me how to download a RAR file. I can't do it with Arachne and I can't
> do it with Netscape. They both print the damn thing to the screen. :-((
> - Clarence Verge
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Well... although I do not know what exactly a RAR file is... I think you
have difficulties in downloading a file (let's say a program) that is NOT
an attachment and that you want to save it *as is* thus without any
headers or something else added that could disturb the downloaded
program.
I am a radio amateur and with 'packet radio' we use several systems to
download files *as is*.
First a system like attachments... not unknown to you.
Second a system called 7+
7+ is originaly developped to relay 8-bit code via a 7-bit medium and
it can size very long files into smaler parts.
One of the virtues of 7+ is that the system uses a start sequence of
caracters that will be regognised by the station that is downloading.
The downloading station reacts by saving all after 'start' into the 7+
directory *as is* !
The start is something like: " go 7plus " and the system ends with "
stop 7plus"
Nothing new? However you can place the "go 7plus" command in any normal
text file, I could place one into this message right now.
Let's asume I will do that at the beginning of a new line... than
anything after the command "go 7plus" will be automaticaly written to
the 7+ directory... as is.
Al our words of this e-mail (before go 7plus) are not saved to disk.
Just anything between:
go 7plus
and
stop 7plus
Maybe those RAR files do have any specific sequence we may use to
trigger a form of 'autosaving'.
Since I cannot send attachments to the 'list' (they will be lost by
forwarding ??) I will send you examples personaly as an attachment...
if you are interested... just ask me.
By the way: if you could encode 7plus I could store the code/encode
programs into this e-mail and they should have been written into your
directory already.
Of course we should adapt 7plus for internet purposes and the software
is free to radioamateurs only...
But maybe it is a start for thinking.
Bastiaan
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