On Sunday 16 December 2001 07:05, Alexander Skwar wrote: >So sprach �Han� am 2001-12-16 um 12:28:45 +0100 : >> Nice, last silly question without looking the documentation. Does it >> run on windows? And is it implementable by any newbie? > >Yes, there is a rsync binary for Windows ... or so I thought. However, >compiling a rsync for Windows should not be a big task for Mandrake. > >"Is it implementable by any newbie?" > >Uhm, I don't think so. Newbies are usually to much afraid of the >command line, so that even if the correct syntax would be written out on >the page, they wouldn't get it. Anyhow, the command line would be: > >$ rsync --verbose --partial --progress rsync://server/path /target/dir > >Explanation: > >--verbose --progress: By default, rsync doesn't print anything at all. >This might cause the newbie to think, that nothing happens. With these >params, rsync prints stuff. >--partial: By default, if a connection goes down before the file is >completely transferred, rsync will delete it. With this option, rsync >will keep partially transferred files.
Are all of the windows versions still supporting ".bat" or ".cmd" scripts? If so, someone could write a script that did of the hard work, like prividing the user with a choice of rsync mirrors, and offering to create a target directory, etc. With this method, a newbie would see the minimum amount of the command line. IIRC, in old versions of windows (up to 95 and nt=4) such scripts could be executed by "couble clicking" I have to search my fading memories for this, as all I have done with windows in the last several years is scoff at it. ;^) -- *Chuck*
